First Sunday of Lent 24feb23

Making Friends With The Lord Jesus · Apr 20, 2023 · 10m

We begin the season on Lent in the Catholic Church. We recall that the Church helps us to contemplate and incarnate the life of Jesus Christ. So she brings us through the various phases of his life. We began with His birth by preparing for it with the Advent Season. We then contemplated Jesus in the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary, delivered when the fullness of time arrived, His infancy, His childhood, His adolescence and so forth. We tried to incarnate the qualities and virtues of Jesus as He went through these stages. We are now preparing for the Easter Season when we contemplate Christ's…