Fr. Hellstrom, St. John Vianney Theological Seminary, Colorado

Lent is my time to invite the Holy Spirit to reveal to me those areas that limit him from working in my life, to show me the specific antidotes, and to walk with him through them. My conversion isn’t so often from bad to good, but from the good things I want to choose to the much better things He chooses (whether they are easier or harder). The Church invites me to 40 days of this, and to walk with Jesus in his desert and mine. I think I will need many Lents then for real conversion, healing, and total trust in the Father’s plan.