The Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, urges us in his message of preparation for Lent to be ‘together,’ ‘listening,’ giving full meaning to ‘fasting’ as a ‘practice that prepares us to welcome the Word of God.’ Dear brothers and sisters, Lent is a time in which the Church, guided by a sense of maternal care, invites us to place the mystery of God back in the center of our lives, in order to find renewal in our faith and keep our hearts from being consumed by the anxieties and distra

Dear brothers and sisters, Two weeks have passed since the penitential sign of ashes was placed on our foreheads. On Ash Wednesday, as every year, we began the Lenten pilgrimage, which culminates in the Easter triumph of Christ, the Lord of life. The Church, our Mother and Teacher, invites us to prepare our hearts and open ourselves to the grace of God with humility and simplicity, acknowledging that we are sinners and that without God’s mercy—expressed in the life, death, an