2014 Lenten Meditations: Ash Wednesday

A change of heart is what God calls us to seek. A fast can certainly lead us to such conversion, be it fasting from empty pleasures or fasting from attitudes and actions that do not further God's reign in our lives and in the lives of others.  The Church of Cranmer's day was likely more familiar with fasting as abstinence than we are today, thus the Archbishop sought to move the seasonal focus from fasting to conversion and amendment of life... [Read more]