A 1st Sunday of Lent Thought About the Meaning of This Penitential Season
We've really focused on preparing for Lent this year. Now Lent is finally here. Today we get our first break. That's right, Sunday - at least in the Latin rite of our Catholic Church - sort of doesn't count as Lent. I mean it's in Lent, but we don't observe our Lenten fasting today. As for whether it's technically a part of Lent, that's a question for experts. All we need to know is we get a break. Of course, the break only makes sense if you've been actually doing something that calls for a break. If you're going about your life "business as usual," you don't deserve a break, right? So what about it? How did you do in your Lenten discipline so far? Did you dive right in on Ash Wednesday, plan in hand, ready for some prayer, fasting, and almsgiving? Or is it taking some time to get down to business? If, perchance, you haven't even put any thought into exactly what your commitment to prayer, fasting and alsmgiving will...