A depiction of Jesus Christ’s passion

Lent presents a splendid opportunity to grow closer to God spiritually, to accompany Our Lord through the Cross to the Resurrection. In this meditation we consider how:

• Lent symbolises our life on earth with its trials and tribulations  and Easter symbolises the joy of our life with God in heaven
•  In Lent we quicken the pace of our life towards our encounter with Christ at the end of our life
• Our prayer and fasting with Christ in his forty days in the desert strengthen us to resist temptations, as Christ did
• Christ’s love for us “to the end” moves us to show our love for him by living Lent well
• Lent is a time for repentance and the resolution to try harder to avoid sin
• We can live Lent through the three traditional ways of prayer, fasting and works of charity