This reflection from Ed Condon is a nice complement to the Lenten reflection from J.D. Flynn that I linked to recently:

…My instinct is to panic. To complain. To work longer hours. To commit myself to my own strength and efforts to save me…

This coming week, this last week of Lent, is a final chance to trust in the Lord, to run to meet him. The proper response to all my petty suburban cares is written in bold across the season: prayer, fasting, almsgiving. To live, not just say, the truth that I and my family live not on bread alone, still less by my efforts, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.

Living this truth with faith isn’t the “mission,” or the “job,” the “challenge,” or the “test” of the next week. It is the invitation open to me, to all of us, in the run up to Holy Week — an invitation not to prove myself worthy of Christ in some Pelagian sense, but to allow him to reveal his power and love for me.

Read the whole thing here.