The living Spirit and liturgical calendar
Lent is remembrance. It reminds us of the way pointed out to us by the Lord with his forty days’ fast at the beginning of his messianic mission.
Lent is remembrance. It reminds us of the way pointed out to us by the Lord with his forty days’ fast at the beginning of his messianic mission. It also reminds us that – at whatever point one may be on his earthly path – one must detach oneself from the “threefold desires” (cf. 1 John 2:16), “works of the flesh” (Galatian 5:19), which “oppose the Holy Spirit”(Acts 7:51), and so leave room for “the fruit of the spirit” (Galatians 5:22), by following Christ in prayer and fasting, so far as one is capable.
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