LENT 2022

Ash Wednesday is the beginning of our Lenten season. You will see in the bulletin the  times for Confession and the Stations of the Cross as well as the regulations for Fast and Abstinence. This year we are having an evening of Recollection on March 29 and are planning more prayer opportunities.

What is Lent? Traditionally Lent is a penitential season, and so it is; but it can be so much more. The traditional practices of Prayer, Fasting and Acts of Charity are recommended to us to help us grow in our Spiritual Life, our relationship with God and with the Community. Lent can be a Transformational Season, a gift of time and grace to transform us more closely in the image of the Crucified and Risen Christ. As we begin this Lent, I encourage all of us to prayerfully ask God where I need to be transformed, where in my life do I need God’s light and grace; what specific concrete actions or changes can be made in my life to make me more closely resemble Jesus. Ask God for these graces and this light this Lent.
God Bless and may we all have a holy, Spirit filled and transformational Lent.
Fr. Dan