Archbishop Arshad: May the charity of Lent be for life
Archbishop Joseph Arshad of Rawalpindi-Islamabad released a message to the faithful on the occasion of Lent. In it, he writes that Lent is a time in which the “Lord has provided an opportunity to concentrate on our lives, repent, ask forgiveness for our sins and change”. For the prelate, who heads the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Pakistan, the 40 days of “Lent are, first of all,” a call “to change our lives and repent by coming back to the Lord”. To do so, the faithful must recognise “the works of God in your lives for God always strengthens and straightens the ways of thos...