On Wednesday night we continued working on the letter of Paul to the Philippians. We read, and completed all the commentary and questions for Philippians chapter 2. In the book we answered question through number 13 on page 97.
The Pope's audience message:
Today the Church celebrates Ash Wednesday, the beginning of her Lenten journey
towards Easter. The entire Christian community is invited to live this
period of forty days as a pilgrimage of repentance, conversion and renewal.
In the Bible, the number forty is rich in symbolism. It recalls Israel’s
journey in the desert, a time of expectation, purification and closeness to the
Lord, but also a time of temptation and testing. It also evokes Jesus’ own
sojourn in the desert at the beginning of his public ministry, a time of
profound closeness to the Father in prayer, but also of confrontation with the
mystery of evil. The Church’s Lenten discipline is meant to help
deepen our life of faith and our imitation of Christ in his paschal mystery.
In these forty days may we draw nearer to the Lord by meditating on his word and
example, and conquer the desert of our spiritual aridity, selfishness and
materialism. For the whole Church may this Lent be a time of grace in which God
leads us, in union with the crucified and risen Lord, through the experience of
the desert to the joy and hope brought by Easter.
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