Word and Songs | LENTEN PRACTICES GOAL: Spiritual Transformation & Ongoing Conversion

with Sr. Lines Salazar, fsp

Conversion is the ultimate goal of why we observe the practices of interior penance of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving during this time of Lent.  And one key way we can approach the season of Lent during the pandemic is to return to the basics, to reflect on the importance of the Paschal Mystery – of the passion, death, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ and what does it mean to us in the here and now especially as we continue grappling with the effects of the pandemic in our daily life.  So instead of focusing on trivial things like… whether or not we are “fasting correctly” or “sacrificing sufficiently” let’s turn our gaze toward Christ and the Gospel.  Let us strive to live out our baptismal vocation through loving words and deeds, and do away with such well-intentioned meticulousness that can actually lead to spiritually destructive thinking and behaviors, which Pope Francis described as “a self-centered and elitist complacency, bereft of true love.”