What with 'liturgical horrors' and a few similar threads about bad stuff, what if we offered some beautiful, spiritually positive lessons or experiences here throughout these Forty Days? I am one of the worst offenders to chime in something ugly, but sometimes it's less easy (or 'satisfying') to carry on, really carry on, about something profoundly good. I have observed that what we say about others may or may not be objectively true, but more important is what what we say about others says about us.

So, share your Lenten Lessons and Experiences to help keep us all spiritually afloat.

At Walsingham this Shrove Tuesday evening we 'emptied the pantry' before our Lenten fast by having our traditional pancake supper, which was well attended. There was still much talk about the ordination, and, one could tell, a genuine sense of the period of 'joyful gravity' which begins tomorrow. We still have with us our visiting ordinaries from Britain and Australia. Tomorrow we have two masses at which to get ashen: noon and a solemn high mass at seven pm. No Sunday, solemnity, or liturgically important day gets by at Walsingham without a solemn high mass.

One of the most deeply spiritual of our members is the lady who works tirelessly on behalf of the unborn and Forty Days for Life. She is an inspiration and example of love at work in the world.