I recall one Holy Week, about a decade ago, when I began reflecting on how I had grown closer to the Lord and in my Catholic spirituality during the preceding weeks of Lent.
I was talking with my wife and had to admit that it really had not been a “good Lent.” Sure, I kept the practice of abstinence from meat on Fridays, I begrudgingly fasted on Ash Wednesday, and so on. I don’t think, however, that I gave up anything else that year. If I did, I probably lost steam and commitment at about Laetare Sunday.
Derek Rotty 