Who Needs Lent? I Do
By DEACON KEITH FOURNIER Lent is an invitation of God’s grace. If we enter into Lent with our entire person, it can draw us, especially at its closure, into a deeper embrace of the power of the Resurrection. On Ash Wednesday, I administered the ashes to the faithful who came forward to identify themselves as pilgrims on the 40-day journey of repentance and conversion called “Lent.” The word is derived from an Old English term referring to the “lengthening” of the hours of the day each year. It falls in the transition time when we move from the barrenness of winter with its long periods of darkness into the verdant new life and the longer days of sunshine we call…Continue Reading