At both of this morning’s Masses in California, Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel filled to standing room only. Head Chaplain Rev. Robert Marczewski asked the congregation to consider the nature of Lent, the penances and resolutions Catholics are called to practice, and why they do so. “We make reparations for our sins and the sins of others,” he said. “We pray for conversion, so that people may come to God with a new heart — a new desire for holiness.”
Marked with the symbol of Our Lord’s cross, students went about the rest of their day in fasting and atonement, devoting themselves to a mindset of peaceful endurance, maintained over the next 40 days of prayer, penance, and almsgiving.
