Lent is a time to fast, pray and give alms; this is what many of us hear about the famed season of grace. It only arouses the question, “As Catholics do we only do these things in Lent?” It seems like this is what is behind our Lenten observances. We tell ourselves, “As for this lent …” I have a question in the midst of all these, “After lent what next?” The roots of the term ‘lent’ itself has in it a very vital lesson; the old English lencten which refers to the springtime. This is the season after winter in the Western world. It is a time of rebirth. It is comparable to the wet season that follows the harmattan in Ghana. It is a time when things that seemed dead awake and begin to bear fruit. Thus lent is a time of rebirth of virtue. Lent is not a season of extraordinary deeds, it is a season to start again the good things (virtues) we left to wither and almost die. After lent there is new energy to walk in holiness. There i...
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