By Kaka Lucas, Thur 24 Feb 2022

I want to have an enjoyable and memorable lent this year. 

People f every age and generation, profession and vocation, all yearn for God. This desire is scripted deep within us…in deep prints in our hearts. Knowing and unknowingly, we have that longing to fulfill the words of St. James in his writing” Draw close to God and He will draw close to you”. We want to link with Him, we want Him and have in a special way union and communion with Him. This longing is invisible and intangible and as humans, we end up sending our gaze to what can pleasurably satisfy our senses.

All while we are wondering here and there to fulfill our desire with what we can see, touch, and feel, God is quietly watching, waiting, quietly waiting. Stop looking around, He is there in the depths of your soul. That longing is what He is using to lead us to Himself and it is each one of us choice to turn and respond to him and continue in our ways. 

Lent can be compared to a stoplight. A season and very proper time to stop. Whatever speed you are driving your life, stop. Stop and reflect on what state your soul is in. Stop and reflect on the way you are living your daily life. But above all, it is time to stop and reflect…

v What habits do I have that need to change during and after the season of Lent

v How can I live my Christian life, intentionally and purposefully

v How can I join my Christian family to grow in our faith as Catholic

v After lent, what would transformation look like

Active and healthy spiritual life doesn’t just drop from heaven. Just like anything else, it is something we have to work upon and changes will follow gradually. 

Lent is a good time to work on our transformation, spiritually, mentally, physically, and whatever else you think you need to grow. It is a season to honestly enter into ourselves and desire good and healthy habits, seeking real changes that are intentionally and purposefully worked on lovingly. 

During this Lent season, have a reason to make it a memorable one.

Pope in his own words reminds us that …

1. Lent is a time for believing, for welcoming God into our lives and allowing him to “make his dwelling” among us.

2. Fasting, experienced as a form of self-denial, helps those who undertake it in the simplicity of heart to rediscover God’s gift and to recognize that, created in His image and likeness, we find our fulfillment in Him.

3. Living a Lent with hope means feeling that, in Jesus Christ, we are witnesses of the new time, in which God “makes all things new” (cf. Rev 21,1-6).

(https://www.infoans.org/en/sections/good-to-know/item/12271-10-phrases-from-pope-francis-to-reflect-on-the-meaning-of-lent)