Each Lent is precious as none of us are guaranteed how many Lents we will have. Lent is a time for remembering Eternity and where we may spend it. My sainted Mother used to say that the worse the medicine tasted the better it probably was for you. I have never liked Lent as a liturgical time of the year, and I know how essential it is for me.
A Timely Reminder
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Lent does come at that half-warm, half-rainsoaked time of the year that can be deflating, to say the least.
But one thing I really love about the season–and keep in mind that I say the “unreformed” traditional Mass–is the sudden richness of a different Mass each day, with the reminder for each of the stational church in Rome (and the correlation oftentimes between a particular church and the Gospel of the Mass), and the curious historical artifacts preserved in the old Missal (such as the lack of Mass, originally, on most Thursdays and Saturdays; the mention of Ss. Cosmas and Damian in one of the collects; the anticipation of Holy Thursday each week; etc., etc.).
It’s very interesting and inspiring to me, and each year it all seems somehow new and familiar at the same time.
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Fr. J – I used to attend the traditional Latin Mass, but I’m now attending a reverent new Mass. I always say that I just want a “Cosmas and Damian” Mass.