“With its invitations to conversion, Lent comes
providentially
to awakens us, to shake
us from torpor,
from the risk of not
going forward out of inertia." – Pope Francis
"Prayer is the strength of a Christian and of
every believing person. In the weakness and fragility of our life, we can turn
to God with the confidence of children and enter into communion with Him. In
face of so many wounds that do us harm and that could harden our heart, we are
called to plunge ourselves into the sea of
prayer, which is the sea of the
boundless love of God, to relish His tenderness. Lent is a time of prayer, of a more intense, more
assiduous prayer, more able to take charge of the needs of brothers, to
intercede before God for so many situations of poverty and
suffering."
Pope Francis
Excerpt Ash Wednesday homily
(03/05/14)
Basilica of Santa Sabina, Roma
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