The purpose of the liturgical season of Lent is to grow in closeness to the Lord through truth, repentance, and the word of God moving into fullness within your heart. Truth of the Spirit with Patti Brunner presents Daily Meditations for Lent. Lenten Logos includes personal revelation for your discernment to grow in your relationship with the Lord during this liturgical season of Lent.
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Welcome to Truth of the Spirit. I am your host, Patti Brunner. We want to introduce you to our new series “Daily Meditations for Lent – Lenten Logos with Patti Brunner. Each day during the upcoming Lent, starting on Ash Wednesday, we will share personal revelation and meditation upon those logos, those words from the Lord.
The Lord says to us, “The purpose of the liturgical season of Lent is to grow in closeness to the Lord through truth, repentance, and the word of God moving into fullness within your heart. The Resurrection of the Lord forms the source and summit of Christianity. Prepare for it; ready your heart. The Cross is recompense for the sin of the world. What recompense do you offer for your personal sin? It is little to turn your face toward the Lord each day. From this ‘little’, planted and nourished like a seed, shall grow the kingdom within you.”
We invite you to use Truth of the Spirit’s daily meditations to make this Lent the season of contemplation! In its wisdom the Church has given us the season of Lent to reflect on our faith, contemplate the passion of Christ, remind ourselves of our need of salvation, and grow closer in our relationship with God. It is a time of fasting, the setting aside of material things, to make room for spiritual things. Together we shall seek the understanding of God’s kingdom, God’s plan of salvation that returns us to the kingdom established by God at creation, and the effect of sin since the door shut on the garden. We shall explore the cleansing choice of repentance, finding our way, despite darkness, by the Light, and how God’s mercy helps us to respond to his love. We shall explore the Cross, the way of restoration.
Much of the reflections we will offer will come from personal revelation during prior seasons of Lent. We hope you discern and find these words drawing you closer to the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit during the next six weeks of Lent.
Why would the Church spend 6 weeks to prepare for Easter? By the wisdom of God, the Church knows how important for us that we get this right. The Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraph 1324 states clearly “The Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life.”” Paragraph 1085 teaches “In the liturgy of the Church, it is principally his own Paschal mystery that Christ signifies and makes present. During his earthly life Jesus announced his Paschal mystery by his teaching and anticipated it by his actions.” The Catechism continues, “When his Hour comes, he lives out the unique event of history which does not pass away: Jesus dies, is buried, rises from the dead, and is seated at the right hand of the Father “once for all.” (8) His Paschal mystery is a real event that occurred in our history, but it is unique: all other historical events happen once, and then they pass away, swallowed up in the past. The Paschal mystery of Christ, by contrast, cannot remain only in the past, because by his death he destroyed death, and all that Christ is – all that he did and suffered for all men – participates in the divine eternity, and so transcends all times while being made present in them all. The event of the Cross and Resurrection abides and draws everything toward life.” Let me repeat that: “The event of the Cross and Resurrection abides and draws everything toward life.”
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You are listening to Truth of the Spirit and the invitation to our Daily Meditations for Lent beginning on Ash Wednesday. I am Patti Brunner and I look forward to sharing with you each day this Lent. Be sure and subscribe and come back, because there’s more. With every day, with the Holy Spirit, there’s more. Amen.
