St. Jane de Chantal
...receive the ashes that both remind us of our mortality and call us to undergo a change of heart so as to live more closely according to the Gospel. And to receive the Body and Blood of Christ whose passion death and resurrection we will commemorate and celebrate at the climax of these forty days. Lent is not just a season of "give ups":" smoking, chocolate, desert, meat, and so on. It is a time of taking on: taking on time to meditate on the Gospel, taking on time for spiritual reading, prayer or adoration. And it is a time to heed the advice of St. Jane de Chantal, foundress of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, "We cannot always offer God great things but at each instant we can offer little things with great love. Offering those little things with great love may be a more difficult mortification than giving up desert for the next forty days.LINK (HERE) TO READ THE FULL BLOG POST BY FR JACK S.J. M.D., HIS BLOG IS ENTITLED, FR. JACK S.J. M.D.
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