Pope Francis urged Catholics to forgo worldly trappings and focus on essentials as he opened the season of Lent with a traditional Ash Wednesday Mass on one of Rome's historic seven hills. He criticized people's tendency to lay bare their lives on social media, deploring "a world in which everything, including our emotions and deepest…
Pope Francis urged Catholics to forgo worldly trappings and focus on essentials as he opened the season of Lent with a traditional Ash Wednesday Mass on one of Rome s historic seven hills.
Pope Francis urged Catholics to forgo worldly trappings and focus on essentials as he opened the season of Lent with a traditional Ash Wednesday Mass on one of Rome's historic seven hills. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Pope Francis urged Catholics to forgo worldly trappings and focus on essentials as he opened the season of Lent with a traditional Ash Wednesday Mass on one of Rome's historic seven hills. He criticised people's tendency to lay bare their lives on social media, deploring "a world in which everything, including our emotions and deepest feelings, has to become 'social'". Lent is a 40-day period of penance which leads to Easter, the most important Christian festival which celebrates the day on which Christians believe Jesus rose from the dead.
Pope Francis said that Lent is a time to share our deepest desires, worries and weaknesses with the Lord in prayer: ‘Let us make space for the prayer of silen.