Requirements to Experience the Lent According to Saint Sister Faustina

Abstract

The period of Lent is a special time given by the Church. During Lent the faithful make resolutions, abstain and make an effort to work on their self-improvement. Frequently, renunciation refers to the material dimension, such as refraining from pleasure, limiting food or watching television. Another form of sacrifice refers to the spiritual dimension which is linked with self-improvement, realizing one’s faults and imperfections of character or spiritual development. Pastoral practice indicates that sometimes the faithful lack ideas how to use the time of Lent. The aim of this reflection is to provide some indication and offer suggestions how to experience Lent relying on the examples provided by Saint Sister Faustina in her Diary. Here are some of them: prayer, adoration and sharing with God your everyday life; overcoming difficulties in prayer and in relations with other people, praying for the conversion of sinners and help for clergymen In saving the lost souls; the humble bearing of suffering and receiving everything that God gives us with love, accepting God’s will as the crowning of all fasts and mortifications.