At the beginning of Lent we have expectations. If we are fasting for example, we expect to lose weight, but to expect to lose forty pounds in forty days is not realistic. But it isn’t wrong to expect progress or to feel better. If you serve others it is not unrealistic to feel good about…
Month: February 2016
Saturday After Ash Wednesday
“Indifference to our neighbor and to God also represents a real temptation for us Christians. Usually, when we are healthy and comfortable, we forget about others (something God the Father never does): we are unconcerned with their problems, their sufferings and the injustices they endure… Our heart grows cold. As long as I am relatively…
Friday After Ash Wednesday
I consider the Lenten Season as a forty-day retreat. For forty days we leave the 24 hour news cycle and fast food world we live in and devote at least part of our day to prayer, fasting, meditation, and service to others. Whether its ten minutes in the morning or a quiet hour in the…
Thursday After Ash Wednesday
Judge not others; judge only yourself.” What appear to be faults in others may actually be reflections of our own emotional afflictions. — Shakyamuni Buddha During Lent we usually take stock, but I don’t think it is realistic to believe one can get rid of all our faults in forty days. Nor do I…
Ash Wednesday
Great athletes practice so much they create muscle memory. When they are mentally exhausted, their muscles still remember how to catch, shoot, putt, etc. As we get older our bodies remember the joy that the Lenten season brings. That’s right, it is not just our heart and mind that welcome Lent. Our bodies too remember…