GREAT LENT: The Second Day

 

Dear Parish Faithful,

Great Lent: The Second Day

 

 

I just received this from our good friend, Mother Paula. For those who never met Mother Paula, but who hear about her occasionally from me, she is a former parishioner who became a nun and is now living at the Holy Transfiguration Monastery in Elwood City, PA. She explains the source of these brief, but very much-to-the-point insights that we would do well to follow during Great Lent.

Dear friends, 
   

Praying  that we will all have a blessed Lenten season and that the time given to us will be a one of joyful repentance, bringing us closer to Christ and to each other.

A few of my notes from +Fr. Thomas Hopko's past homilies from Forgiveness Sunday:

 

• Just live one day at a time. All of our problems come from thinking, analyzing, figuring things out. Instead, we should think of God and have an awareness of Him. Don’t look back and don’t be anxious for tomorrow. 

• Forgive, fast with joy and lay up yourselves treasures in your hearts. 

• Pray to God to show mercy to one another, constantly forgiving. 

• Lent is a gift from the crucified Lord. Take it and say thank you! 

• Lent is a gift given to us by God for our salvation and for the glory of God. 

• We learn during Lent, hopefully to have a broken and contrite heart and to come to realize that it is all grace.

 

Bless and Forgive

Yours in Christ,

Mother Paula