Reflection on the Fifth Week of Lent
The Midpoint of Lent
What if I'm at the midpoint of Lent and not much is going on?
I began with the best of intentions, but I am not sure what I'm doing or what I want to be doing. Can my Lent be 'rescued"? Can a six week journey be completed in the remaining next two or three weeks - waiting for my heart to be open? Of course, the answer is “yes.” It doesn't take long for God, when we are ready.
How to begin again
The first step to beginning again has already begun, if I have the desire for something real during Lent. A therapist once said that "we get better when we get tired of not being better." This isn't the same as "guilt." Feeling guilty for not doing much about Lent won't get us very far. What we need is a real desire - a real sense of expectation that God has something for me to hear, to learn, to change, and I want to be ready to listen.
This desire can co-exist with fear, with resistance, with bad habits that have been obstacles in the past. God doesn't need much of an opening to begin to free us and show us a transforming love.
A little desire is enough to shape deeper desires.
Once we can say we want to make something of these precious days remaining in Lent, then we can start naming some more specific desires.
For some of us, it is obvious. There is a big, glaring self-defeating pattern staring us in the face. Most of the time, however, it takes a little reflection, a bit of honest examination of conscience to really see what is getting in the way of my being a follower of Jesus.
Monday - 3/22 Feast of St. Basil of Anyca
Shopping bags are needed
this week in order to pack up
classroom desks so the the
classrooms may be cleaned and waxed.
Tuesday - 3/23 North Manhattan Speech Contest
@ Incarnation School
9:00 AM
Wednesday - 3/24 World Tuberculosis Day
Feast of St. Catherine of Sweden
Thursday - 3/25 Stations of the Cross 10:00 AM
Easter Recess begins after recess today.
Students return to school on April 12th.
Friday - 3/26 NO SCHOOL
Teacher Conference Day
Sunday - Palm Sunday
Mass for all students at 1:00 PM
School office will be open during the
Easter break from 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
office will be closed Holy Thursday and Good Friday
