Lent is, for me, a time of anticipation - of looking forward whilst holding on to the present.
Before Lent I wonder if I should forgo some ‘luxuries’ but wouldn’t it be better to be positive rather than negative?
A conversation in the Cathedral recently made me determined to donate more to the food parcels for the needy who visit daily - what must drive someone to opt out on the streets and who is anyone to judge them.
In a purely practical manner Lent is a time for making sure the choristers are robed in ‘penitential’ purple cassocks - and for extra services and duties, to looking forward to the choristers being robed in the splendid red cassocks on Easter Sunday - but not for a few weeks yet. Yes, Lent is for me a time of prayer (inward thoughts), fasting (forgoing the luxuries) and almsgiving (food parcels).
Rachel Fielding, Blackburn Cathedral
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