While Lent is a time of penance ahead of the Easter celebration, it should also be considered a time of God's abundant mercy, said Catholic author and speaker Katie McGrady.
, any prayer practice we add to our routine and any generous gifts we make are meant to draw us closer to God," she said.Katie McGrady is a former youth minister, the author of four faith books and the host of"The Katie McGrady Show" on Sirius XM's The Catholic Channel.
"And so in Lent, to be closer to God is to be closer to his mercy, which he longs to lavish upon us."For the first Sunday of Lent, Catholic churches around the world will be proclaimingSin, along with death and taxes, are"three things inevitable in this life," said McGrady. "We don't like to dwell on any of them, quite frankly, even though perhaps we should," she said.
Those who dwell on death should"do well to think of how we can live life to the full so as to greet death like an old friend when it arrives," said McGrady.When it comes to taxes, McGrady noted that paying them on time"makes it least a little less surprising." Sin, however, even in its"seeming inevitability," is best thought of as"something worth resisting" — rather than"something to dwell on," she said.
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