Lent offers us a new opportunity to examine our lifestyles. In his Lenten reflection, Pope Francis puts fasting, praying and almsgiving in a creation care frame. It might be good for all of us to reflect on this:
“Fasting, that is, learning to change our attitude towards others and all of creation, turning away from the temptation to “devour” everything to satisfy our voracity and being ready to suffer for love, which can fill the emptiness of our hearts. Prayer, which teaches us to abandon idolatry and the self-sufficiency of our ego, and to acknowledge our need of the Lord and his mercy. Almsgiving, whereby we escape from the insanity of hoarding everything for ourselves in the illusory belief that we can secure a future that does not belong to us.”
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Websites with Lenten Resources:
Toledo AUSCP Subcommittee – Homily Notes on Social Justice Themes
Loyola Press – Lent
NETWORK – Lenten Resources
Catholic Mobilizing Network – Lenten Reflections
Kairos USA – Worship Resources
Columban Fathers – Weekly prayer by email