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In the liturgy’s first reading on Ash Wednesday, the prophet Joel call us to wholehearted conversion: “Even now, says the Lord, return to me, with your whole heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning, rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the Lord, your God” (Jl 2:12–13). Each week throughout Lent, Burns breaks down these two verses: - Week 1, return to me —recognize the need to reorient our lives through Lent; - Week 2, return to me with your whole heart —reorient not only the mind but also the heart to the Lord; - Week 3, return to me with fasting —acknowledge hardness of heart and the value of discipline; - Week 4, return to me with weeping and mourning —bring forward personal agonies and unbind hidden bitterness that divides us from God; and - Week 5, Rend your hearts, not your garments , return to the Lord, your God. Then, during Holy Week and the Resurrection on Easter, you are invited to weave your own stories into that of the Paschal Mystery. 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