Why I Want Lent to be Harder

LENT. I love Lent. No, I’m not being facetious. I really do love Lent. I LOVE black and white. Concrete parameters. Step by step instructions. Definitive directions. So I LOVE the particulars of Lent. Starting Ash Wednesday every year we enter into a very specific season in the life of the Church. With the “everyone’s doing it” positive peer pressure of our fellow Catholics, it’s “easy” to pick some sort of penance or self denial for these 40 days. I … →