Repent and Believe: Devotions for Lent

Each Lent, we embark on a journey of recovery and discovery. We recover by renewing our sacraments—particularly our Baptismal promises and receiving the graces we need through the Eucharist and Penance and Reconciliation. We are also setting aside old habits—our vices, our distractedness—and recovering something foundational: our relationship with the Lord who suffered, and died and rose again for us.

But there is also discovery in Lent. Like clearing the winter detritus from the garden only...