Lenten Period. 5th March – 17th April
Come down, then from your high chambers at this season to avert what else may be. Sinners as you are, act at least like the prosperous heathen, who may throw his choicest trinket into the water, that he might propitiate fortune. Let not the year go round and round, without a break and interruption in its cycle of pleasures. Give back some of God’s gifts to God, you may safely enjoy the rest. Fast, or watch, or abound in alms, or be instant in prayer, or deny yourselves society, or pleasant books, or easy clothing, or take on some irksome task or employment; do one or other, or some, or all of these, unless you say that you have never sinned….. Blessed JohnHenry Newman
Lent is a preparation for the celebration of Easter. For the Lenten liturgy disposes both catechumens and the faithful to celebrate the paschal mystery: catechumens, through the several stages of Christian initiation; the faithful, through reminders of their own baptism and through penitential practices.
