Did You Know Series # 15



Feast of The Annunciation

 Did you know?

“It has been stressed several times that the full union of the Catholic Eastern Churches with the Church of Rome which has already been achieved must not imply a diminished awareness of their own authenticity and originality.  Wherever this occurred, the Second Vatican Council has urged them to rediscover their full identity, because they have ‘the right and the duty to govern themselves according to their own special disciplines.  For these are guaranteed by ancient tradition, and seem to be better suited to the customs of their faithful and to the good of their souls’” (Orientale Lumen 21, Pope John Paul II).

Great Lent

Today Great Lent commences.  The liturgical life is fundamentally one of imitating Jesus and sharing in the mystery of his life.  Driven by the Spirit, through prayer and fasting Jesus prepared himself for his future ministry.  Even throughout the next three years he spent his nights in prayer so as to constantly stay attuned to the promptings of the Holy Spirit.

Great Lent beckons us to get in tune with what's really driving us and to examine how attuned we are to the Spirit of Holiness.