Reframing Fasting, Praying and Almsgiving

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

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada is situated on the Traditional Territories of:

the Mississauga Anishinaabeg adjacent to Haudenosaunee Territory and in the territory covered by the Williams Treaty, and Rice Lake Purchase Treaty 20

the Algonquin Anishnaabeg in the area covered by the Rideau Purchase or Treaty 27 and 27 ¼

the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and, the Lenape in the territory covered by Treaty 6 and Treaty 2 and,