In Lent we prepare for the celebration of our redemption by Christ’s death and resurrection. In this meditation we consider how:

• We can accompany Our Lord in his forty days of fasting and prayer in the desert by our own greater effort in prayer, fasting and almsgiving.
• Lent is a time for conversion, of starting anew in our spiritual struggle.
• As Christ loved us to the end by dying on the cross for us, we should be generous in our Lenten discipline.
• When we live Lent well, we have a true springtime, new life and growth, in our spiritual life