Lenten Fridays

 Blessed Lenten Friday everyone! As the weeks go by, we draw closer and closer to Easter Time, and the preceding Triduum and Holy Week. My last two Lenten Friday podcast posts had to do with Lenten relating things, from Stations of the Cross, to O Sacred Head Surrounded. Which besides there being three Lenten Fridays so far this year, I have only done two blog posts. But besides this, I still promised to do a Reflection on Stabat Mater, which I have yet to do, and probably will not do until next week. When we get to the Friday Before Palm Sunday (for my Traditional Friends, the Friday after Passion Sunday, or for my non-traditional friends, the Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent), I want to do a little blog post on Palm Sunday, and then during the week I will do reflections on the Days Leading up to Easter. And then there will be a normal Video on Monday, and I am doubting there will be one on Thursday, only because it is Holy Thursday, not that I will not have time to make it, but I don't know what topic would be appropriate. But rest assured, there will be a blog post all the days!

I believe I took a general look at Lent, talking about Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving. I believe we well know about the fasting often done during Lenten Fridays. Which, traditionally, all Fridays were days of such abstaining from meat, and for my traditional friends, this is a practice many still continue. Why is Friday so important though?

Well, everyone loves Fridays, obviously, for Students and many working, Friday is the end of the week, and then they get a two-day break. But why does Friday have such an important meaning for us Catholics? Why do we fast?

Friday, is the day on which Christ was Crucified and died. That is, on Good Friday. Because of this, just as every Sunday is important because Christ resurrected on that day, Friday is important because Christ died on this day. Lent is a time for preparation for the Passion, a time to remember this part of Christ's mission on earth. And above all a time to make a positive change in our lives because of it.

Above all, on Fridays, these acts of penance, whether done during Lent or during the rest of the year, serve to us as a reminder that, this day is important in our lives of faith. That the action's of Christ matter to us. Just as we go to mass on Sunday, in honor of the Resurrected Christ, we also fast on Friday, in honor of Christ who was Crucified.

Doing this Penances for Lent, and doing the Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving, is a time for us, not to merely do these things because that is what we are told. But because we truly want to change our lives, to grow in accord to God's will. Above all, these outward things, move us to make a true change in our inward disposition.

God Bless, 

Matthew

P.S. After this week, the Fourth of Lent, also called Latarae Sunday, we will be on Passion Sunday (which is the first week of April), which is the week before Palm Sunday. In the old form, the passion Gospel was not read on Palm Sunday, but the preceding Sunday, that of the Last Full Week of Lent.

Update:

I was really excited to make Yesterday's podcast episode. Believe it or not, I think the last two Podcast episodes ("God is Love" and "Be the Change") are my favorite, simply because of the effort that they required, because I put care and thought into writing a script. I don't know if I could possibly top these two videos, at least for a while. I really do believe that these two are top, these are the best videos which I have made so far. I put true and deep spiritual look into these two topics. The second especially I was really excited about. And I do plan in the future to look more at other movies and TV Shows, to find the spirituality in them, as I did in the last episode.