Let’s be human victims

Lent is a time to establish peace in your heart. Opportunity for the sacrament of reconciliation, correction, reconsideration of opinions, attitudes, opinions that destroy peace within, joy. Therefore, the words of Jesus apply: “Whoever wants to follow me, let him deny himself …” (Lk 9:23).

Sprinkling the head with ash is a symbolic gesture of a new beginning. The ash is created by burning something, not just last year’s branches blessed on May Sunday. Fire destroys, but at the same time allows you to start a new life. During combustion, the action of fire generates heat and light. It is possible to deduce from them what people and God expect from us. Christ does not want our destruction, but our life. Ash is actually dust. Faith teaches us that our natural life will end in the sign of dust. The body succumbs to destruction, only the soul passes by death into a new life, when the glorified body will follow it at the resurrection. Lent time and the thought of the graveyard, death, and what will follow for each of us is not unnecessary. Vice versa. Christ’s suffering and death ends for us with the Easter Hallelujah, the resurrection when Christ overcame death so that we may have eternal life for me.

New life is also connected with ashes. They are being rebuilt on the hearth. A new, more beautiful, more beneficial one arises when one understands that life must go on. Let us remember another picture: In the fast, gardeners make final preparations to make the harvest rich. However, they will not protect themselves from frost. Therefore, the nobility, new varieties of trees, more resistant to frost to make the crop safer. However, when a gardener expects frost, by setting fire and using smoke in the garden, he can at least partially protect the crop unless the frost is too strong.

That is why a Christian does everything, thinks, acts, is not satisfied with a smaller one, but longs for great ideals. It is time to fast in fasting that we will not be affected by disgust, but will be open to the needs of the soul and the salvation of ourselves or others. We realize that a living desire for God will save us from mediocrity and conformism. Frequent encounters with Christ during Lent in prayer, fasting, alms will enrich our spiritual life with new light and guide us on the path to Christ as his witnesses. Lent is also a challenge to show the world that it is wrong to underestimate, ironize, and practice fasting practices. Yes, fasting in the spirit of weight loss, diseases can survive another time. However, in the time of liturgical fasting, many unite, and thus united spiritually and physically in prayer, we can overcome ourselves, and encourage, inspire to change others.

Let us remember something from Lent time in our lives that can serve us for concrete deeds. Let’s live fasting together. For example, we strengthen the fraternal communion that we are to live to the full in heaven. Let us protect ourselves from evil example, offense, sin.