{"id":13519,"date":"2016-03-09T10:39:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T10:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=13519"},"modified":"2016-03-09T10:39:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T10:39:51","slug":"six-ways-to-live-lent-as-pope-frances-asks-acn-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2016\/03\/09\/six-ways-to-live-lent-as-pope-frances-asks-acn-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"Six ways to live Lent as Pope Frances asks &#8211; ACN Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2>\u00a0<strong>Six ways to live Lent as Pope Frances asks<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In his message for Lent 2016 Pope Francis asks us that &#8220;the season of Lent in this Jubilee Year be lived more intensely as a privileged moment to celebrate and experience God&#8217;s Mercy&#8221;.\u00a0 Here is a short list of things you can do to put the Pope\u2019s message into practice:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Listen attentively and prayerfully to God\u2019s word :<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&#8220;By calling for an attentive listening to the word of God and encouraging the initiative \u201c24 Hours for the Lord\u201d, I sought to stress the primacy of prayerful listening to God\u2019s word, especially his prophetic word. The mercy of God is a proclamation made to the world, a proclamation which each Christian is called to experience at first hand. For this reason, during the season of Lent I will send out Missionaries of Mercy as a concrete sign to everyone of God\u2019s closeness and forgiveness&#8221;.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Express faith in everyday actions:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&#8220;Works of mercy remind us that faith finds expression in concrete everyday actions meant to help our neighbours in body and spirit. For this reason, I expressed my hope that \u201cthe Christian people may reflect on the corporal and spiritual works of mercy; this will be a way to reawaken our conscience, too often grown dull in the face of poverty, and to enter more deeply into the heart of the Gospel where the poor have a special experience of God\u2019s mercy\u201d (ibid., 15).&#8221;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Love your neighbour:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&#8220;God\u2019s mercy transforms human hearts; it enables us, through the experience of a faithful love, to become merciful in turn. In an ever new miracle, divine mercy shines forth in our lives, inspiring each of us to love our neighbour and to devote ourselves to what the Church\u2019s tradition calls the spiritual and corporal works of mercy. These works remind us that faith finds expression in concrete everyday actions meant to help our neighbours in body and spirit: by feeding, visiting, comforting and instructing them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Practise the works of mercy:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&#8220;In the corporal works of mercy we touch the flesh of Christ in our brothers and sisters who need to be fed, clothed, sheltered, visited; in the spiritual works of mercy \u2013 counsel, instruction, forgiveness, admonishment and prayer \u2013 we touch more directly our own sinfulness. The corporal and spiritual works of mercy must never be separated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Overcome your existential alienation:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&#8220;Lazarus, the poor man, is a figure of Christ, who through the poor pleads for our conversion. As such, he represents the possibility of conversion which God offers us and which we may well fail to see. Such blindness is often accompanied by the proud illusion of our own omnipotence, which reflects in a sinister way the diabolical \u201cyou will be like God\u201d (Gen 3:5) which is the root of all sin. (&#8230;) For all of us, then, the season of Lent in this Jubilee Year is a favourable time to overcome our existential alienation by listening to God\u2019s word and by practising the works of mercy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Take advantage of the Lenten season for conversion:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&#8220;Let us not waste this season of Lent, so favourable a time for conversion! We ask this through the maternal intercession of the Virgin Mary, who, encountering the greatness of God\u2019s mercy freely bestowed upon her, was the first to acknowledge her lowliness (cf. Lk 1:48) and to call herself the Lord\u2019s humble servant (cf. 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