Lent is a time to recover an undivided heart: a heart open to joy, to life, to love. It is a time for struggle against division: the division that is the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. To eat that fruit is to have a partial vision: a vision limited by the self’s proud judgement of what is good and evil. This judgement tends to saying that only what is mine is good. To say that is to miss so much that is in truth good: the good of others. To miss this is to miss joy: the joy of others’ happiness. So congratulation is an apt Lent practice: to express delight in, and so to come to share, others’ happiness. Concomitant with congratulation is compassion: feeling the need for benefits which are on the other, far, side of the line by which the judging self