Ash Wednesday and Lent

Ash Wednesday

Today is Ash Wednesday and marks the beginning of the Christian season of preparation and repentance, which we know as Lent. Our students and staff participated in a class liturgy today with Father Eric beginning the time of prayer over the PA system. 

So, what is Lent really about? Pope Francis answers this in his message about Lent. 

Pope Francis

Pope Francis' message about Lent for 2022 comes from St Paul’s epistle to the Galatians: ‘Let us not grow tired of doing good, for in due time we shall reap our harvest if we do not give up’ (6:9-10).

‘Lent invites us to conversion,’ Pope Francis wrote, ‘to a change in mindset, so that life’s truth and beauty may be found not so much in possessing as in giving, not so much in accumulating as in sharing and sowing goodness.’

The conversion that Lent invites us to is what we are called to every day. Lent ‘is in some way an image’ of life itself. Part of this conversion is the willingness to sow goodness in the life of others; even when we do not see the fruits of what we sow, no act of love, no matter how small, Pope Francis says, will be lost in the eyes of God.

Rudolf Lameijn

Religious Education Leader