As I write these words, it is Lent of 2024. As with everything in life, some things are perennial, others temporal—linked to a fleeting moment in time. So, in all the Rites of the Church, East and West, it is that penitential period which has followed Pre-Lent or Shrovetide, Christmas, Advent or St. Philip’s Fast, and the ever-varying (by both Rite and Year) Sundays after Pentecost.
