Passion Sunday calls for a renewal of Lent vigor

‘Ah, let us settle our debts with good grace in this life by cheerfully carrying our cross,’ writes St. Louis-Marie de Montfort.

On Passion Sunday, with its advent of veiled statues and images, the long fortnight leading up to Good Friday and Easter thus begins. The purple vestments, worn since the start of Septuagesima, seem to have been here for so long, and now when Lenten resolve might well be dwindling, the statues and images in our churches and home are hidden, in yet anoth…