“Trust in Hope” This Lenten Season
As we turn the calendar to March, there we find Spring awaiting us after a cold winter. Even though warm weather is a ways off, do you find joy in planning your garden, arranging for Brewers tickets, dreaming of long summer nights Up North?
March also invites us to enter into Lent. We continue to travel the Pilgrimage of Hope with Pope Francis, “Trusting in Hope” to bring us through a season of waiting. Lent reminds us that we are in constant need of God’s saving actions in our lives. Just as we luxuriate in warmth at the end of a long winter, we find a deeper appreciation of God’s interventions and His presence in our lives after our journey through Lent.
You’ll see this hopeful pilgrimage reflected in our Lenten liturgies, which will begin with a reading of the Entrance Antiphons. You are invited to reflect on these psalm excerpts before the opening song. Like last year, the assembly will proclaim the responsorial psalms to one another by speaking the verses aloud. Our repose song, “Surely the Presence,” will rest during this season; we’ll sing the Pope’s Jubilee hymn, “Pilgrims of Hope” instead.
Trust in Hope.
Alicia Levin, Music Coordinator
Judy Zunk, Liturgy Coordinator