For the Church, the most important celebration of the year is Easter. That is why there is an extraordinary time of preparation that takes forty days. It is a period of forty days that begins with Ash Wednesday and ends with Palm Sunday.
How can the aridity of suffering be transformed into a creative experience of love? It was around this question, guided by the figure of St. John of the Cross, that the communities of Bologna and Modena experienced their 2026 Lenten recollection.
Marked by the symbol of the ashes, Father Dehon, in his Ash Wednesday meditation, confronts us with our fragility to better call us to a penance of the heart and an outpouring of love toward the Sacred Heart. An essential guide for a holy beginning to the forty days of Lent.
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