Msgr. Charles M. Mangan, Special to the Catholic Herald - “These forty days of Lent, O Lord, with You we fast and pray, Teach us to discipline our wills, and close by You to stay.”... How the crucified and risen Lord Jesus wants to change us. He really desires that this Lent will witness our profound transformation from sin to virtue. And that, too, is an unmerited grace... The path to Easter Sunday’s empty tomb first passes through Calvary. There is no getting around the stark reality: “If we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him” (Rom 6:8). Our anger, pride, lust, greed, envy, gluttony and sloth must be nailed to the Savior’s cross before we will be fully liberated from Satan’s snares.