3 Timeless Lenten Practices

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

As we prepare for lent, it is easy to get carried away finding new and creative lenten practices and forget the simple purpose of this liturgical season. Today, Dr. Sri brings us to the heart of the Catholic tradition of lent and reminds of the three timeless lenten practices that will help us make space in our hearts for God this lent.

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“It happened one day I was entering the oratory and I saw a statue representing the wounded Christ. I felt so keenly how poorly I thank him for those wounds that it seems to me that my heart broke. I threw myself down before him with the greatest outpouring of tears.”- St. Teresa of Avila

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life.
0:13.9	In the next couple weeks, we're going to hear a lot of talk about Lent, and I did a Google
0:18.4	search in factories in the UnLent, and this is what I found at the top of the list, things
0:21.7	like this.
0:22.7	10 out of the box ideas for Lent.
0:26.2	25 great things you can do for Lent.
0:29.2	You don't have to give up for Lent.
0:30.9	50 new ideas to try.
0:32.9	No, I don't know about you, but I'm going to be a little overwhelmed by all these lists
0:36.4	and creative ideas, but I want you to know that Lent shouldn't be really about coming
0:41.3	up with something creative to do for Lent.
0:45.8	The church has been doing Lent for 2,000 years.
0:47.8	We don't need to come up with something new, something creative.
0:50.2	I know that's popular.
0:51.2	I want something tailored to me and to my likes.
0:53.9	This is about my self-expression.
0:56.3	Here's how I like to do Lent my way.
0:58.8	Again, I know that's very trendy to do things that way, but that Lent isn't about that.
1:04.0	I also am concerned that sometimes we can view Lent is just about a list checking off
1:09.5	the box.
1:10.5	I did these three things for Lent.
1:11.5	Good.
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