Lent and Repentance
 
Parish Penance Services – Wednesday, March 24, 2010 – 4:00 and 7:00 p.m.
 
Rejoice! Rejoice! Don’t look so gloomy; God loves you! Start living your faith as a meaningful and intimate relationship with the God who is love, and your repentance will flow as easily as your rejoicing.   You will want to change, for you will want to please Him who loved you unto death, and whose love shall be your everlasting life.
 
To repent is first of all to recognize how much God loves us and to become aware of how little we love God and the persons created in his image.   Repentance requires change and that gratitude is the driving force behind it.   Coming to this awareness, we choose to make a firm commitment expressed in practical actions: to return love for love, to break with sinful habits and acquire virtuous ones, and to learn to forgive, because the Father forgives.