Each Sunday during Lent is a respite from the other days of the week: a day to remind us that even as we think more on Christ’s suffering, his temptation, his betrayal, and his death we must never forget about the resurrection.
As we spend time at church and with our families, may these thoughts be on your heart:
This was why the Lord had promised to send the Advocate: he was to prepare us as an offering to God. Like dry flour, which cannot become one lump of dough, one loaf of bread, without moisture, we who are many could not become one in Christ Jesus without the water that comes down from heaven. And like parched ground, which yields no harvest unless it receives moisture, we who were once like a waterless tree could never have lived and borne fruit without this abundant rainfall from above. Through the baptism that liberates us from change and decay we have become one in body; through the Spirit we have become one in soul. – Irenaeus