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Msgr. Roger Landry: Answer Jesus’ Summons for a Fuller Lenten Conversion – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Msgr. Roger Landry: Answer Jesus’ Summons for a Fuller Lenten Conversion

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Ashes, Ash Wednesday. ‘Even now, says the LORD, return to me with your whole heart’ (Joel 2:12). (photo: Unsplash)

By Msgr. Roger Landry, National Catholic Register, 

Monsignor Roger Landry, a priest of the Diocese of Fall River (MA), is National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies. He can also be heard on EWTN radio’s Conversations with Consequences every weekend.

 

COMMENTARY: To live Lent well begins with a desire to go with Jesus into the desert and return profoundly changed.

Msgr. Roger LandryIt’s hard for Catholics to ignore the summons to conversion we hear on Ash Wednesday.

As the priest smudges our foreheads with ashes in the shape of the cross with the words, “Remember you are dust and unto dust you shall return,” he similarly brings us back to the words with which Jesus began his public ministry:

“Repent and believe in the Gospel.”

Lent is a season in which we are helped to remember that just as Jesus died, so will we, and that therefore we should die to sin and live by faith in the Gospel.

It’s a period of hope announcing God’s mercy and the opportunity for a second — or 70 times seventh — chance. …

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