About Life

Lent is all about life. Jesus' life. Your life.

Jesus giving His life for your life, that you may have life.

Abundant life.

Satan wants to take that life, your life, and make it his.

Destroy it. Twist it. Make you think life a curse, not a blessing.

Jesus says this: The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.

I came that they may have life and have it abundantly (John 10:10).

Satan is a thief. Jesus gives.

And in His death and resurrection, Jesus gives us life again.

Abundant life.

Eternal life.

Lent is therefore the perfect time to think about life and pray for life.

For your life, your neighbor’s life, all life.

Young life, old life, disabled life, unwanted life.

To remember again that all life is precious to God.

For He died to save every life.

Your life.

Please use this calendar this Lenten season to reflect on the gift of life,

the ways life is thought about wrongly today,

and to pray for life.

All life.

And if your heart is so moved,

consider giving some Lenten alms to support the gift of life,

as suggested at the end of each week.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,

that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor,

so that you by his poverty might become rich (2 Corinthians 8:9).

~ Saint Athanasius Commission on Mercy