If all the church’s worship should be thought of as a journey, Lent involves achieving platinum frequent flyer status.

With the beginning of Lent, we are all called to focus on one of the spiritual aspects of the sex abuse crisis that underpins all the others: namely, the tragic failure to see.

Life does not have to be this way. You don’t have to be this way. You can begin again. All that you require has been here all along. You need only return to the mystery of your own baptism.

Reflections on the three pillars of Lent: prayer, fasting and almsgiving

Lent is the moment — or 40 days of moments — for us to turn away from our constant and public self-curating and turn towards God.

Even the holiest people are complicit in social sin; we benefit from injustices that we do not control. Yet we still have the freedom to seek God’s grace.