Thursday after Ash Wednesday – Lent and Prayer
We are in the middle of the great shift in the liturgical year, as we begin the forty days of Lent. We have enjoyed Shrove Tuesday with a nice meal and pancakes in different flavours. In this way the last day before Lent has been properly marked, and so we have entered Ash Wednesday in silence and prayer. We have been marked with the cross on our forehead, and we have witnessed how the liturgy changes, how the prayers of the Church and the psalmodies lead us in to deeper layers of our faith. And most of us have heard or remember the “golden triangle” through which God invites us to come closer to him, that is by fasting, almsgiving and prayer. Each one of these cornerstones is fundamental in our Christian life, and today I would like to pay attention to the latter, the prayer.