On the 6th of February, the Catholic Church (and much of Christianity) celebrates Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday begins the holy season of Lent, a time for introspection, a time for conversion of heart, a time to gain a bit of perspective. On Ash Wednesday, we will be reminded about our finitude (you are dust and to dust you will return). On Ash Wednesday, we will be invited to a change of heart (turn away from sin and be faithful to the Gospel). On Ash Wednesday, those seeking baptism at the Vigil of Easter will intensify their preparation. They will experience a Lenten desert, hungering and thirsting for the living God.
Ash Wednesday is our feast day of perspective: how am I living the gift of life? How am I rejoicing in my family? My work? My own freedom of conscience? How am I living as a member of this SJN community? Ash Wednesday offers us a time for perspective.
Come. Hear the invitation of the Lord. Freely admit your needs, your failures, your hopes. Come, join the rest of us in recognizing our imperfection and our need of a new Way of Life. That Way has been given, and the holy season of Lent allows us…through the sacred disciplines of prayer and fasting and almsgiving… to find ourselves again, in Him. A.M.D.G.
Msgr David Talley
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