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Recently, I saw a bumper sticker that read: "What you are is God’s gift to you. What you become is your gift to God." The more we realize the magnitude of the gift that God has given to us, the more we will want to grow closer to him and give him a great gift.
This is the primary reason why the church celebrates the season of Lent. For the next six weeks, the readings from Mass will invite us to fix our eyes on Jesus, on his sacrificial death, and on the life that he made possible for us when he rose from the dead. And it is these readings from Scripture that will help us answer the question posed by this bumper sticker: “How can I make the gift of my life more pleasing to the Lord?”
“Proclaim a Fast.” As we were praying and asking the Lord what we should write about this Lent, we thought the Spirit was telling us: “Call for a fast.” We felt that he wanted us to take the first reading for Ash Wednesday and expand upon it and explain it. And so we have.
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