The season of Lent offers us an opportunity, as Pope Benedict XVI reminds us, to have "a particularly intense encounter with the Lord, calling us to retrace the steps of Christian initiation." Of course this begins with embracing the Lenten practices of prayer, sacrifice and alms-giving, which requires the desire to "die to ourselves." This act of wild abandonment leads to a greater awareness of who we are as sons and daughters of God and prepares us to be witnesses of Christ to the world.
Our world needs such witnesses. Our world needs such hope. Our world needs the example of all of us who seek to be holy "as the Father is holy." Let this be our collective desire this Lent: that we might willingly empty ourselves in order to be vessels waiting to be filled and moved by God's grace.
Michael Lavigne
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