Food for Thought
There’s a humorous card making the rounds on the Internet and it says: “Next year for Lent, I'm going to give up being so miserable about what I gave up for Lent.”
Mar 13, 2015
There’s a humorous card making the rounds on the Internet and it says: “Next year for Lent, I'm going to give up being so miserable about what I gave up for Lent.”
The point of sacrifice during Lent isn’t to make us suffer, but to make us change. Giving up things for others isn’t meant to make us miserable. Sacrifice is meant to make us better people, not just during 40 days but throughout life.
“The Christian life consists in continuously scaling the mountain to meet God, and then coming back down, bearing the love and strength drawn from him, so as to serve our brothers and sisters with God’s own love,” said Pope Benedict XVI in his 2013 Lenten message.
The sacrifices we make, during Lent and throughout life, may become someone else’s bounty, just as Jesus’ sacrifice benefited us all.
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