On Monday of the Second Week of Lent, the Church leads us from the Forum’s converted temples to St Clement’s layered basilica—signs that what was profaned can be restored. Daniel’s penitential prayer and Christ’s warning in John 8 press the urgency of conversion: to fast not only from food but from sin. Beneath our lives lie hidden altars; Lent descends to overturn them. The Cross, “lifted up,” reveals the Redeemer and calls us from death in sin to mercy. https://nuntiatoria.org/2026/03/02/todays-mass-march-02-second-monday-of-lent/