Day three of the reflections from Fr Alan Hilliard’s book Dipping into Lent asks you to ‘get out of the caves’. What is your cave? If you would like to get a reflection each morning subscribe, and a new reflection will appear in your inbox each morning at 7:00am. Feel free to share it with others.
Maybe it’s not so much what you are doing for Lent but what are you Dipping Into?
When Pope Francis was travelling to Cuba, a journalist on the flight asked him what the laity could do for the Church.
The question came from Noel Diaz, the son of a single mother who remembers when his mother could not afford to buy clothes for his First Communion. He is now a successful journalist in Los Angeles.
Pope Francis replied to Noel, ‘Continue working . . . I need for you to get out of the caves’.
‘Getting out of the cave’ is a phrase used in Spanish to ask someone to leave a comfortable position in pursuit of something greater. This is a wholesome description of Lent; let’s get out of our cave.
If you see anything mysterious or unusual just enjoy it while you can. – Michael Leunig