Pope Francis: trust in Lord, conversion of heart
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis led a solemn procession on the Aventine Hill in Rome yesterday evening, from the Church of St. Anselm to the Basilica of St. Sabina, where he celebrated Mass and imposed ashes on the faithful at the start of the great penitential season of Lent.
The Holy Father made his way from St Anselm to St. Sabina as the Benedictine and Dominican monks of the respective churches chanted the litany of the saints, then changed out of his cope and into his stole and chasuble, and began the celebration of the Holy Eucharist on Ash Wednesday: the beginning of the whole Church’s journey of penance and conversion that culminates in Easter.
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“We are limited creatures,” Pope Francis said in his homily, “sinners ever in need of repentance and conversion.” The Holy Father went on to say, “The call to conversion is then a push to return, as did the son of the parable, to the arms of God, tender and merciful Father, to trust Him and to entrust ourselves to Him.”
The 40 days of Lent culminate in the Easter Triduum: Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday, the Passion liturgy on Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil Mass, in the night between Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday, this year to take place the 1st week of April.
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