Each year, over the years, we have been summoned during the Lenten season to engage more fully in the traditional practices of fasting, praying and almsgiving. How might yours and mine and the lives of others be affected, if during these upcoming forty days of Lent we reframed Lent’s threesome call as an invitation to abstain by becoming more open minded – refraining ourselves from our rash judgements of others, to invoke by becoming more open hearted – creating a more welcoming space for others and to give by becoming more open handed – sharing our gifts and time with others.
-Sister Nancy Wales, csj