Lent comes on quiet feet, slipping into Ordinary Time while we are still breathless from barefoot running with the shepherds to the brilliance of the star. Lent comes on quiet feet, leading us to paradox and parables, barren desert and living water.
Lent speaks first with the prophet Joel's Ash Wednesday words that remind us to return "with our whole heart" to the Lord, to "rend our hearts and not our garments." In the Gospel that day, Our Lord reminds us that when we fast or ...