Quote from Dom Gueranger from ~ 140 years ago. May God in His Mercy and Goodness grant to each of us a holy Lent. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray that we may be made worthy of the Promises of Christ!

Quote:
“How few Christians we meet who are strict observers of Lent… even in its present mild form. And must there not result from this ever growing spirit of immortification a general effeminacy of character which will lead at last to frightful social disorders?

Those nations among whose people the spirit and practice of penance are extinct are heaping up against themselves the wrath of God and provoking His justice to destroy them by one or other of these scourges: civil discord or conquest.

There is an inconsistency which must strike every thinking mind: the observance of the Lord’s Day on one hand, the observance of days of penance and fasting on the other. The Word of God is unmistakable: unless we do penance, we shall perish.”