Meditations and The forty days of Lent provide Christians, and those preparing for baptism, with an intense period of preparation for the Feast of all Feasts, Easter, the Passover of the Lord. This collection of sayings and meditations dwells on the central Lenten themes of prayer, conversion, repentance, fasting, almsgiving and self-denial, as lived from apostolic times until the present day. This little companion to private reflection will offer ready sustenance to those setting out on the joyful road to Easter.