First off, I apologize for this post's delay. I guess I had enough going on between Wednesday and today, and I didn't get around to it.
This is the day that begins the Paschal Season of Lent, leading up to the Great Triddum and then Easter Season, when we celebrate the great Paschal Mystery of God.
It is such a great mystery, which tells the story of how God has loved us, and brought us to life. Being in the presence of such a mystery, we are called on this day to make ourselves right before God. We are called to repent with contrite hearts, not simply tearing our clothes. In this state of contrition, we plead before God to have mercy on us, knowing that we are sinners and stand unrighteous before Him, and that He alone can make us clean and restore us. And we show our repentance by fasting, giving of ourselves in alms, and praying, not to laud ourselves, but to engage in our relationship with God who has loved us so much.
Furthermore, we do this because, as St. Paul writes in stirring words in the 2nd reading from 2 Corinthians, "...now is a very acceptable time...now is the day of salvation."
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