I must say that I'm very excited about Lent. Partly this is due to the fact that Lent is a preparation for the celebration of the Resurrection at Easter, but it is also partly due to the practices of Lent themselves. Lent is indeed a time of preparation and as such we clean house and get things back on track, so to speak. I constantly find myself yearning for a more ordered life; I desire discipline. These are exactly what I find in my Lenten preparations. I pray more - I eat less. I focus my thoughts inward and examine myself. I ask the questions that have been put off for far too long. I take a serious look at what is wrong that in forty days I might celebrate all that is right. I face death that I might welcome Life.
Just as I require my weekly cup of grace as I kneel and receive the Eucharist that I might live life to the best, so to do I require my yearly Lenten season as I kneel in prayer and discipline my body and mind that I might live rightly as a part of the Church, the Easter people... people of the Resurrection.
The time of preparation is almost upon us.
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