A Two-Part Plan for Lent pt.2

We need a two-part plan for Lent: Human and Divine. Yesterday we focused on the human and to today the divine or the spiritual.

Lent is about conversion and growth. The infallible means to growth in friendship with Jesus and conversion from vice to virtue is Daily Meditation. The Catechism suggests two ways to do daily meditation through Lectio Divina, that is, to prayerfully read the Bible or through the Rosary. Either way, in meditation we do three things:

A. We listen to God by reading or recalling His Word in Scripture, Tradition and the teaching of the Church. This is the way God speaks to us.

B. Then we reflect or think about what God has said and done to understand it, to love God for it and to form firm convictions.

C. We form a resolution to put into practice what God has said to us that day. If we do this every day we will convert from vice to virtue and grow. If we do not do this – we will not convert and grow.