Lent 2012
Posted on | February 24, 2012
by | Kim
I’m not too big in discussing our plans for Lent this year. But I do want to write a little bit about Lent, and how we’re attempting to live it out.
Fr. Anonymous happily counseled me ahead of Ash Wednesday in order to keep me balanced during Lent. I don’t know about anyone else, but I tend to get either burned-out or exceedingly scrupulous during Lent. His aim is to begin to wean me from Lenten tendencies that are fueled by the Third Diagnosis, which in turn should keep the scruples at bay.
Lent has become much more simple for me (yes, I know it’s only three days into it, but trust me on that). Part of me thinks that what he has recommended I “do” for Lent is really “not enough”, which is exactly the faulty thinking of the Third Diagnosis that goes right into scrupulosity. It’s times like this that obedience comes into play as well as seeing The Specialist, because obedience keeps me from falling into faulty thinking traps and The Specialist helps me to get through the faulty thinking and eventually re-wire the thinking in my brain.
Lent for the Littles has also been super simple: simple meals at dinner, a Lenten calendar from Catholic Icing, little conversations here and there about why there is purple at Mass, why Mass “sounds different”, talking more about the Passion – that sort of thing. I don’t know how much of it makes sense to Elise, but I know this is not my season to do anything big or dramatic. Maybe adding in some activities from Catholic Icing, but that’s about all I’m capable of right now.
Our Lent is low-key and quite basic, but I am confident this is what God wants us to be doing right now and will bless it abundantly.
O Lord, The house of my soul is narrow; enlarge it that you may enter in.
It is ruinous, O repair it! It displeases Your sight.
I confess it, I know. But who shall cleanse it, to whom shall I cry but to you?
Cleanse me from my secret faults, O Lord, and spare Your servant from strange sins.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
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