{"id":38724,"date":"2024-03-16T08:51:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T07:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hijasdejesus.org\/?p=38724"},"modified":"2024-03-15T14:52:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T13:52:20","slug":"domingo-v-de-cuaresma-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hijasdejesus.org\/en\/domingo-v-de-cuaresma-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Sunday of Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Time for community decisions.<\/h2>\n\n

We come to the last week of Lent and almost at the end of the Pope’s Message for this season. It suggests that we review in community our habits to search <\/em>and risk<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n

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The synodal form of the Church, which in recent years we are rediscovering and cultivating, suggests that Lent should also be a time of community decisions, of small and large decisions against the current, capable of changing the daily life of people and the life of a neighborhood: shopping habits, care for creation, the inclusion of the invisible or the despised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I invite all Christian communities to do this: to offer their faithful moments to reflect on their lifestyles; to verify their presence in the neighborhood and their contribution to improve it. Woe to us if Christian penance were like that which saddened Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May joy be seen on faces, may the fragrance of freedom be felt, may that love be released that makes all things new, beginning with the smallest and closest.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

To think and pray:<\/p>\n\n