“It is time to act, and in Lent, to act also means to
pause. To pause in prayer, in order to receive the
word of God, to pause like the Samaritan in the
presence of a wounded brother or sister. Love of
God and love of neighbour are one love...
For this reason, prayer, almsgiving and fasting are
not three unrelated acts, but a single movement of
openness and self-emptying, in which we cast out
the idols that weigh us down, the attachments that
imprison us.”
Pope Francis
