✝️ The First Day of Lent

Today the Church begins the sacred season of Lent — a journey of forty days leading us toward Easter. We receive ashes as a gentle reminder: we are not made for this world alone… we are made for God. Lent invites us to return to Him through: • prayer • fasting • and charity It is not meant to be a season of sadness, but a season of renewal — a chance to begin again, no matter how far we feel we’ve drifted. May this Lent soften our hearts, quiet our distractions, and draw us closer to Christ. “Repent, and believe in the Gospel.”