Rend Your Heart and Not Your Garments
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
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🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever feel overwhelmed by Lent? There are so many different devotions, fasts, and studies to participate in. How do you figure out what God is calling you to this Lent? Dr. Edward Sri answers this question and offers five practical ways to transform your life this Lent.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Edwards Three, and welcome to all things Catholic where real faith meets real life. Do you ever feel overwhelmed by Lent? You know Lent is around the corner and you're thinking |
| 0:18.1 | oh shoot I gotta come up with something what am I gonna do this year I need something really |
| 0:23.2 | do this year I need something really good and you know maybe you go online you go on social media |
| 0:25.8 | Instagram and you see what everyone else is doing and you compare yourself that's not |
| 0:30.2 | really helpful and you feel a little discouraged or you're looking for ideas and you find |
| 0:34.7 | you know here's 21 and a half creative ideas to live Lent like never before or here are 10 |
| 0:40.7 | crafts you can do with your kids at home or here's 16 recipes for foods that go along with the season of Lent. |
| 0:47.0 | You know, ever see things like this, you know, where they're like, do these three things and you'll have the most amazing Lent ever. Now those can be fun, |
| 0:54.2 | don't get me wrong, I've gone on these, you know, looked for these things, ideas for |
| 0:57.6 | the home, ideas for myself, and they can inspire us. But I want us to be careful |
| 1:02.0 | because sometimes we could look at all of these outward things related to Lent and miss the inner heart. |
| 1:10.0 | We could begin to look at Lent is more about, you know, the tasks that we do. |
| 1:13.8 | I did these things at home with my kids. I did these things in my parish. |
| 1:17.8 | I did these things in my daily life. |
| 1:20.3 | Whether it's, you know, there's some new devotion I cultivate in Lent or I'm going to read this |
| 1:24.9 | spiritual book in Lent or I'm going to do this new pious practice or I'm going to do these |
| 1:29.2 | daily reflections and again those can be really good and enrich our spiritual life. We just want to make sure we're not focused on those things themselves. |
| 1:38.0 | We want to look at what those things are meant to do. What are those books and devotions and pious practices meant to do on the inside? |
| 1:46.8 | Many times when I see things out there in the world today in the Catholic world about Lent and how they advertise Lent and promote Lenten ideas, |
| 1:55.2 | it tends to focus a lot on our experience. |
| 1:58.6 | What is my experience of Lent going to be, did I like it? |
| 2:02.0 | You know, is this enjoyable? Am I going to get a lot out of it? |
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