(Friday after Ash Wednesday)
A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew 9:14-15
14 Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?” 15 And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come, when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.
(Source: Youtube – Vatican’s Channel)
“Conversion is to go against the flow, where the ‘flow’ is a lifestyle that is superficial, incoherent and illusory, which often drags us in, dominates us and makes us slaves of evil or at least prisoners of moral mediocrity.” The Pope noted this in the catechesis of today’s general audience dedicated to the journey of Lent, which begins today. Before more than seven thousand pilgrims, Benedict XVI recalled that with conversion, to which we are reminded in the first formula of the rite of ashes, “we are pointed to the high standard of Christian life- “the living and personal Gospel which is Jesus Christ. For this, a small adjustment of life is not enough, but rather “a real turnaround, a choice of …
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