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Lent
 


By faithfully taking the austere Lenten journey, you will be able to become aware of the risks to which your spiritual life is exposed and will be encouraged to fulfill your Christian vocation joyfully.
Mary is beside you, the Woman of Hope who sustains you and guides you with her motherly tenderness during the 40 days that lead us to Easter.

 
General Audience
Ash Wednesday
21 February 2007

 
 
 
Lent
 


Lent is thus an opportunity to "become" Christian "anew", through a constant process of inner change and progress in the knowledge and love of Christ.

 
General Audience
Ash Wednesday
21 February 2007

 
 
 
Lent
 


May Mary, Mother of Beautiful Love, guide us in this Lenten journey, a journey of authentic conversion to the love of Christ.

 
Message for Lent
2007

 
 
 
Lent
 


Lent is the favorable spiritual season for training ourselves to seek God with greater tenacity, opening our heart to Christ. St. Augustine once said that our life is a unique exercise of the desire to draw close to God, of becoming able to let God into our being. "The entire life of the fervent Christian", he says, "is holy desire". If this is the case, we are further inspired in Lent to "tear out the roots of vanity from our desires", to teach the heart to desire, that is, to love God.

 
General Audience
Ash Wednesday
21 February 2007

 
 
 
Lent
 


Lent is a favorable time to learn to stay with Mary and John, the beloved disciple, close to Him who on the Cross, consummated for all mankind the sacrifice of His life. With a more fervent participation let us direct our gaze, therefore, in this time of penance and prayer, at Christ crucified who, dying on Calvary, revealed fully for us the love of God.

 
Message for Lent
2007

 
 
 
Lent
 


The liturgy of Lent invites us ... to reject sin and evil, and overcome selfishness and indifference. Prayer, fasting, penance and works of charity towards our brothers and sisters thus become spiritual paths to follow in order to return to God.

 
Homily
Third Sunday of Lent
24 February 2008

 
 
 
Lent
 


Today, Lent begins, a "powerful" liturgical season, a time of peace and of commitment to serving our brothers and sisters, to be lived keeping our gaze always fixed on Jesus, who is setting out towards his death and Resurrection.

 
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Ash Wednesday
21 February 2007

 

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