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Growing our hearts this Lent through a 'spiritual game plan' – Catholic Philly

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By Lindsey Weishar • Catholic News Service • Posted February 19, 2021
I don’t know about you, but I often mentally brace myself for Lent. The season feels so long, so winter-ridden, and in this time of lingering pandemic, especially isolating. Yet, the Online Etymology Dictionary reminds me that Lent comes from an Old English word meaning “lengthening of the day,” “spring.”
Perhaps we’re called to approach Lent not as a marathon of tasks meant to break our will but as a blossoming born of accompanying Christ through the desert, an opportunity to grow in our relationship with him along the way. ....

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Lent a 'beautiful time' of 'grace and blessing,' says archbishop – Catholic Philly

Lent a ‘beautiful time’ of ‘grace and blessing,’ says archbishop
Faithful pray during a Feb. 17 Ash Wednesday Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul. Principal celebrant and homilist Archbishop Nelson Pérez described Lent as a beautiful time in the church. (Sarah Webb)
By Gina Christian • Posted February 17, 2021
Lent is “a moment of grace and blessing” as well as “a time of conversion and change,” said Archbishop Nelson Pérez in his homily for Ash Wednesday.
The archbishop was the principal celebrant and homilist at the Feb. 17 liturgy, which took place at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul. ....

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After 11 months, what is there left to give up this Lent?

After 11 months, what is there left to give up this Lent?
People in Cambridge, Md., pray in their cars on Easter April 12, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. (CNS photo/Joshua Roberts, Reuters)
By Mark Pattison
• Catholic News Service • Posted February 12, 2021
WASHINGTON (CNS) Since childhood, the typical U.S. Catholic’s response to Lent is giving up, as in “What are you giving up for Lent?”
If you haven’t been keeping track, Catholics in the United States and worldwide just about everyone, really have been giving up a lot since the coronavirus pandemic struck 11 months ago, with no clearly defined end in sight. You would need the fingers on both hands to name some of the things that have been lost, not to mention nearly a half-million lives lost in the U.S. alone. ....

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