Lenten Longings

Lenten Longings:
LET YOURSELF BE

Let us pray that our prayer and sharing lead us to greater self-understanding and to reverence anew God’s way of leading us to our deepest peace and truest potential through life’s rhythm of joy and struggle. – Lenten Longings

Last week I went to a workshop at the Archdiocese on “Lenten Longings”. Lenten Longings is a faith sharing program put out by Renew International, a company dedicated to renewing parish life and the faith of her parishioners. By rediscovering and sharing our faith we find that we renew ourselves and each other with Christ’s help.

During the six weeks of Lent we will gather in small groups to pray together, break open the Sunday scripture together and share our faith with one another. During Lent we are asked to reflect deeply into our faith and seek ways to becoming closer to Christ. We can only do that if we allow ourselves to just “let ourselves be.” We need to--we long to- allow Christ to take care of us and shape us into the people, or persons, we are meant to be. We need to be still and hear God’s voice in the quiet of our minds. Let us break open God’s Word this Lent and truly listen with our hearts as we are invited to “just be”…

… these reflections on the Sunday readings of Lent invite us to “let ourselves be so that together and alone we may be moved during this holy season by the Loving Presence who longs for us more than we long for life itself To this God of our longing, we entrust ourselves throughout this paschal journey, asking only that—little by little or in one great flaming of our hearts— we may let ourselves be set ablaze.
– Lenten Longings

We set our hearts ablaze when we come together to share our faith and our hearts with one another. We set our faith on fire when we join together in Christ’s name. And… we WILL set the world on fire with love. Please consider joining a Lenten Longings group (or leading one!). Details to come…
God Bless, Holly Clark