PASSIONTIDE: THE PERIOD IN WHICH THE CHURCH SEEKS TO 'PERFECT' THE LENTEN CONVERSION OF HEART.

"The fatal hour is at hand; the power of darkness is preparing to make use of the time that is still left; the greatest of crimes is about to be perpetrated."

As the Church moves into the final two weeks of Lent with the beginning of Passiontide, already signalling the fast approaching end of the penitential season of Lent, Dom Gueranger points ever more to the Passion of Christ as food for meditation in the upcoming days. Pointing back to the previous weeks of Lent, the holy abbott describes them as “but a p…