Preparing for Lent – Building a Kingdom of Love with Msgr. John Esseff Discerning Hearts Podcast

Summary: <br> Msgr. Esseff teaches the importance of fasting, almsgiving and the Liturgy of the Hours during the season of Lent.  He shares his experience of fasting in a desert found in Peru. From this he learned the importance of FASTING and PRAYER.  Msgr. Esseff challenges us to discern what the Father in Heaven is asking us to do this Lent through fasting, so we can purely and perfectly follow His Holy Will.  And he describes ALMSGIVING, and story from an experience he had with Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity Sisters.<br> The Church prepares a spiritual retreat for all of us during Lent.  The Holy Spirit is transforming you in a radical way so that you become more like Jesus Christ…the day by day exercise of Morning Prayer, the Eucharist and Evening Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving, and the other moments of contemplative prayer aids in the transformation…our ego decreases and Jesus increases in our minds and in our hearts.<br> Pray the Liturgy of Hours<br> <a href="http://www.universalis.com/-600/lauds.htm" target="new" rel="noopener">Morning Prayer</a><a href="http://www.universalis.com/-600/terce.htm" target="new" rel="noopener">Mid-morningPrayer</a><a href="http://www.universalis.com/-600/sext.htm" target="new" rel="noopener">Mid-dayPrayer</a><a href="http://www.universalis.com/-600/none.htm" target="new" rel="noopener">Afternoon Prayer</a><a href="http://www.universalis.com/-600/vespers.htm" target="new" rel="noopener">Evening Prayer</a><a href="http://www.universalis.com/-600/compline.htm" target="new" rel="noopener">Night Prayer</a><a href="http://www.universalis.com/-600/readings.htm" target="new" rel="noopener">Office of Readings</a><br> <br>