Lent lengthens our horizon

Dear brothers and sisters, Lent lengthens our horizon, it orients us to eternal life. On this earth we are on pilgrimage., "for here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city which is to come," says the Letter to the Hebrews (Hebres 13:14). Lent makes us understand the relativity of the goods of this earth and thus makes us capable of the necessary self-denials, free to do good. Let us open the earth to the light of heaven, to the presence of God in our midst. Amen.

(Benedict XVI)