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Lent does not arrive with fanfare or confetti like other feasts in the year do.nIt arrives quietly, traced in ash, in repentance, and anchored in 40 deliberate days that feel almost stubborn in their simplicity.
The Catholic Church is both a community made up of fragile and limited human beings and a divine reality, Pope Leo XIV said at his weekly general audience.
Life is a journey that requires trust and reliance on Jesus, who sometimes asks his disciples to leave everything behind, Pope Leo XIV said.
Pope Leo XIV has renewed his "heartfelt appeal" for an "immediate ceasefire" in Russia's war against Ukraine and again urged dialogue "be strengthened to pave the way toward peace."
