To hold on to the One who holds us may mean we need to let go of other loves. However this is only so that once we have learnt to ‘love one another as Christ loves’ we may be able to love everyone better.
In the life of faith there is no room for spiritual one-upmanship which presumes that our work is more important than another’s prayer or our worship more precious than another’s washing-up
Of all the tools the Church has to bring healing to a broken world the most powerful is the willingness of the individual Christian to confess their sins.
‘All work and no play’ is as true an aphorism in the enclosure of an Abbey as in our churhces as in our Lenten Journey
In our journey of faith we need a balance between being busy and being prayerful – Ora et Labora when balanced help us steer a straight course.
Penance, along with our lenten devotions, is not a punishments for past peccadilloes but an instrument to help us give ourselves away more fully.
When we join a fellowship we tell everyone else more about ourselves than we think. To be a ‘pleasing aroma’ self disclosure is a key part of forging peace.
We only truly learn to answer the call of God on our lives when we can move from a faith based on works to one full of grace and generosity.
Peace never comes at ‘any price’ but is forged in the heat of communities which chooses to live out their imperfections together.
In Lent we leave things behind so that we can embrace the world more fully
