LENTEN DIGEST with FR. PIUSRALPH EFFIONG, SMMM

FRIDAY IN THE FIRST WEEK OF LENT 

Mystery of the day: Sorrowful 

Lenten Excercises: Meditatively pray the mystery of the day, and actively participate at the Station of the Cross.

Theme: Get yourself a new heart.

"Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, says the Lord, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit." ( Ezekiel 18:31)

Blessed one, Greetings to you on this Second Friday within the Season of Lent. It is a very special day what could be referred to as "Yom Kippur" in the Jewish setting which means "the day of atonement." In this great day of days, where God continue to invite us to retreat our thoughts, words and actions from evil deeds as Prophet Ezekiel reechoed in the gospel acclamation of today:

"Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed, says the Lord, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit." ( Ezekiel 18:31)

We need to create a new heart for ourselves so as to be spiritually enriched this season of Lent. Let us say no to what we know is keeping us afar from God, and then be clinched to Him in spirit and in truth. Peace! Be to you.

Let us pray

Grant that your faithful, O Lord, we pray, may be so conformed to the paschal observances, that the bodily discipline now solemnly begun may bear fruit in the souls of all. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

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