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During this special season of Lent, we are encouraged to seek a deeper relationship with God through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. It is a period of engagement in which we prepare ourselves to experience anew the wonders of the celebration of the Paschal mysteries. The fruit of this period of spiritual exercise strengthen our spirits when we inevitably encounter challenges during our faith journey. Nowhere, for myself, did I appreciate the fruits of Lent more than when my Nana died and I found myself caring for the spiritual and emotional health of my folks. My faith offered me a resilience I didn’t know I had, and gave me the grace and peace to remember and celebrate my Nana while I grieved and supported my family.

The season of Lent offers us that chance to dig deep within ourselves and our faith, and to free ourselves from going it alone. God invites us once again into deep, loving relationship, reminding us that at we are never alone in our journey.

Lent offers us a chance to build up our spiritual resilience. Trusting in God and leaning on that trust, in good and bad times, provides incredible strength and courage to face the changes and chances of life.

 

Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?” And Jesus said to them, “The wedding attendants cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak, for the patch pulls away from the cloak, and a worse tear is made. Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; otherwise, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are ruined, but new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.”

                                                                     Matthew 9:14-17

 

Worship And Prayer
Observing Lent