Weekly Reflection: The Easter Perspective

Lent

“I stand diligently at the gate of the heart” – St. Philotheus

The Season of Lent can only make sense with an Easter perspective.  Christ is risen! Love is stronger than death!  As many have observed, Lent is a time to live in the tension we feel between our lives as valuable and alive, and our lives as empty and in need of change—we need both to point us in the right direction.   We are asked to be a little more vulnerable with nothing to hide. We are asked to make ourselves fully known to God—to invite God into all the rooms of our house, that “inner room” that Jesus speaks of in the gospel, or “interior castle” as St. Theresa describes the spiritual journey. We make this journey not on our own, but as a Christian community.  And so we let go of things, we  make room for something new—room for God, room for others, room for forgiveness and peace, room for greater love and understanding, and more—whatever your need is, as we listen more deeply to that inner, still, small voice that only you can hear in the depths of your heart where Christ is born again and again.

-Gary Maccaroni, CALLED Curriculum Team