The God Who Craves

An Invitation to Lent and an Ash Wednesday Reflection

Today, in my church’s Ash Wednesday liturgies, the officiating priest read the “Invitation to a Holy Lent” from the Book of Common Prayer. Toward its end, the priest said: “I invite you, therefore, in the name of the Church, to the observance of a holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting, and self-denial; and by reading and medi…