Make this Lent Life Changing!
The glorious season of Lent we enter into again! We need Lent because there are so many distractions that are present in our lives that can take us from our true purpose as Children of God. If we allow ourselves to enter deep into the Lenten Fast, we will receive a renewed life of peace, hope and love.
Our example for Lent and, hopefully, for all aspects of our lives, is Jesus. We read in St. Mark’s Gospel:
The Spirit immediately drove Him (Jesus) out into the wilderness. And he was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with wild beasts; and the angels ministered to Him.
Mark 1: 12-13.
In this short section of the Scriptures which describes the first Lent, we see things that we must be aware of for our Lenten experience.
We will be tempted, but we will also experience the consolation of God through the Angels. Be strong during the rough times of these forty days and and allow ourselves to be transformed into the Children of God, in the way we live, as we are in fact, by our Baptism.
The things in this world war against the love we were created to share. Let this Lenten Season bring us back to who we truly are made to be.
Let this Lent radically change us and in doing so improve the world around us!
Pax. The Hermit of Peace.
Hermitage of Peace 