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If during the coming six weeks of Lent we can find the courage and humility to acknowledge that we are, indeed, sinful people, and that our sinfulness is not something trivial but rather, because of its destructive effects on others and on ourselves, something very serious, then we will have begun the journey towards a true celebration of Easter. And if over these same six weeks, by our openness to God’s grace, our faith is strengthened and deepened so that we truly understand and believe that the greatness of our sins is absolutely eclipsed by the incredible love, compassion and forgiveness of the Lord, then as Easter comes we will know what it means to have died with Christ and risen with him. If through our prayers, our fasting and our alms-giving we have allowed the Lord to help us stand straight, with eyes fixed on him and therefore also on those he loves, we will know what Jesus meant when he said to his disciples, “I have come that they might have life and have it to the full” (John 10:10).