Catharine Caimano in Faith and Leadership.
Lent gives a chance to know that God sees us in our frailty and loves us fully, all the same. Lent gives us an opportunity to feel the darkness in and around us that will be expelled come Easter Day.
From Halden: “Remember that you are dust.”
From Jeffrey MacDonald: “Why Lent must rise again.” And a response from Pamela Fickenscher.
Mark Vernon on Ash Wednesday: the importance of acknowledging our mortality.