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I’ve written previously about our focus at St. Anthony on the Lake School on the importance of good manners and being responsible and respectful. Each Monday, we gather as a school to reinforce items previously discussed and to introduce a new manner for the upcoming week.
As we entered the Lenten Season, we talked not only about giving up something we desire (candy, computer games, soda) as a way to demonstrate the practice of sacrifice, but we also encouraged each other to focus on Pope Francis’ message of fasting from things like pessimism, anger, gossip, and judging others. Sometimes these items are harder to refrain from than dessert or screen time.
This past Sunday, Father Ken Knippel preached on the idea of “doing something” as it relates to supporting those who are less fortunate than are we. And while we continue, as a school, to collect items for the food pantry and to support our Partners in Mercy, Father Ken’s challenge to meet our Lenten Mission theme to “Go Light Your World” resonates as it calls us to do all we can to light the candle of those who suffer and struggle.
So, as we reach the mid-point of Lent, our goal is to continue to focus on the words of Pope Francis and Father Ken to do all we can to fast from self-concern and to look for ways that we can feast on compassion and service to others.
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