Lent: Week One Continued

Consider this reading from a prayer our staff shared on Tuesday:

Carnival celebrates the unity of our human race as mortal creatures, who come into this world and depart from it without our consent, who must eat, drink, defecate, belch, and break wind in order to live, and procreate if our species is to survive.  Our feelings about this are ambiguous.  To us as individuals, it is a cause for rejoicing that we are not alone, that all of us, irrespective of age or sex or rank or talent, are in the same boat.  –W. H. Auden

Celebrating our humanity prepares us for a time of difference.  And yet, it also reminds us that as a people, we are on the journey of faith together.

The things we do as a faith community during Lent matter.  Eating fish on Friday; Praying Stations of the Cross; Going to Reconciliation; Incensing the Church.  These things matter because they show us difference, and they teach us the value of ritual.  These faith traditions make us who we are as Catholics in the same way our family “party” defined us as family.  Join us, your parish, as we journey through these forty days of Lent together.

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