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But Lent is more exciting, and also more demanding. I remember it was customary for most Catholics to give up

WELCOME LENT 2019

Lent is a very special and significant liturgical season for me.

When I was a secondary school girl in Singapore, I learnt to do many little things to celebrate the 40 days of Lent. In some ways I felt that this season gave colour and meaning to my Christian living.

Being a Sunday Catholic, Christian living can be dull and monotonous. Going to Mass on a Sunday morning, perhaps attending a rosary session in the month of May with Benediction, a few processions here and there, eg procession of the Eucharist on Corpus Christi Sunday (feast of the Body and  Blood of Christ).

some favourite snacks or activities to show that we are in a period of deprivation and mortification. When we were young, we

did not fully understand why we were doing all these things. We just had to do them because they were done in Lent and as good Catholics we want to follow the tradition.

I vividly remember one special practice during Palm Sunday. I was told that I should not shift my feet or move during the whole reading of the Passion narration. It seems that this practice was a very important part of Lent. How many times I had to control my urge to change my position or to scratch myself or do some annoying movements. When the reading ended I was really so relieved and triumphant that I had stuck it out.

Another touching element of Lent was the Way of the Cross done in my Chiuchow dialect. After we said, We Adore you, o Christ, and we bless you, because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world, the narrator would say in a sing-song fashion: O my soul, you consider, and you consider…Then follows the meditation on that Station. For example, we are to consider how Jesus fell beneath the cross. It really touched my soul to hear those words said in that sing-song manner. All these years I have never forgotten them.

Now I come back to the present day. Now we understand what Lent is all about. A remembrance and a re-enactment of what happened when Jesus undertook to deliver us from sin and eternal death by suffering and dying on the cross for us, 2,000 years ago. He did it for love of us.

Now when I deprive myself of something, when I mortify my senses and desire for useless commodities and fleeting pleasure, I am sharing in the Passion of Christ. And I want to do it out of love for Jesus and for my neighbor. I want to revive my youthful enthusiasm to make this Lent something remarkable, special and moving.

I wish to do the three Lenten practices recommended by the Church: pray sincerely, do fasting and share with my needy neighbor in material and spiritual goods. Anyone wants to join me?

LET’S GO! ! !

Sr Grace Lee

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