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SOURCE: https://www.catholiceasttexas.online/diocese-of-tyler-celebrates-35-years-with-eucharistic-congress/
By Father Roger Landry, EWTN News, February 14, 2024
COMMENTARY: Since Jesus in the Eucharist is the source and summit, the root and center of the Christian life, Lent, too, should draw its life from the Eucharistic Jesus and lead us to him.
Lent is about going spiritually to the state of the desert, about uniting ourselves to, and imitating, Jesus’ fasting, praying and charity. It’s a time to repent and believe.
We’re summoned to render our hearts open to God, to reflect on the meaning and trajectory of our life, as we recall that we are dust and to dust we shall return. It’s a period of mercy and conversion, of grace and holiness that we’re supposed to receive fruitfully and not in vain.
This Lent is special, taking place within the parish phase of the three-year-plus Eucharistic Revival. ….
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