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Ursuline Sister Dianna Ortiz was teaching indigenous children as a missionary in Guatemala in 1989 when her ministry was torn apart in the midst of the country’s brutal civil war.
I see the three temptations as the primal and universal temptations that all humans must face before they dare take on any kind of power—as Jesus is about to do.
Isaiah tries to describe what a just people and country would look like if they fasted from the right things.
If we take Lent seriously–here and now today–and pay greater attention to God and our neighbor then the Lord will pay greater attention to us.
Isaiah says explicitly that God prefers another kind of fasting which changes our actual lifestyle and not just punishes our body.
Below-zero temperatures, teeth-chattering wind chills and deep snow turned the southern Plains into an Arctic landscape, forcing Catholic Charities agencies to adopt emergency measures to get people to safety.
Lent is a time of re-enforcement of our decision for God. It is a time to weed out what keeps us from him, to strengthen what we need to stay strong in him.
So today you must pray for the desire to desire! Even if you do not feel it yet, ask for new and even unknown desires.
With the [20th century] renewal of the catechumenate the Church sees Lent as a time of preparation for those to be baptized at Easter, and a time of renewal of baptism for all the rest of us.
No one is exempt from the call to repentance simply because there is no one whose heart is already fully in tune with the Lord.
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