Maybe it’s because of my doleful given name, but over the years
Lent has become one of my favorite seasons.
I have been reading daily mediation from “The Liturgical Year” by Dom
Prosper Gueranger to keep me on track this year. So with that being said here’s
a little what I’ve read so far: Holy
Mother Church (in her apostolic succession authority) reminds us of the forty
days and forty nights of the old testament deluge, the Hebrew people in
punishment for their ingratitude in the dessert before they could enter the
promised Land, the when God told Ezechiel to lie forty days on his right side
as a figure of the siege which was to bring upon destruction in Jerusalem. It was thus for God chose 40 days for his Son
to fast in the dessert. The act of
fasting is pleasing to God and helps purify our souls by denial of the flesh
and makes us strong – so that we are worthy to sing the Alleluia once we
conquer our enemies: the devil, the flesh and the world! Blessed Lent,
everyone!
