22 Feb 2021
As we begin our Lenten season and journey this year, we do so after already a long year of limitations and lockdowns. It feels like we have already given up so much. It has been hard. Yet these coming weeks can be a precious time to open our hearts to the Lord who loves us intimately and has compassion on his people; to be renewed, restored, healed and converted. In opening our hearts to Him, so also we open our hearts to one another and to our world. We pray, we fast, we reach out in selfless giving.
Despite our continued physical isolation from one another, may this Lent be a graced time for us; that we each may yield fruit in due season (Communion antiphon for Ash Wednesday). For these 40 days we journey together.
Have a blessed journey.
Fr Carl Tranter
MSC Provincial Leader.
