Preparing for Lent “Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart,    with fasting and weeping and mourning.” Joel 2:12 “I am cru­ci­fied with Christ” — I myself in the very essence of my being, I let myself go to that death, and by the mys­te­ri­ous pow­er with which God meets faith, I find that He has made it true:…