Lord, I have cried to you, hear me.
This is a prayer we can all say.
This is not my prayer, but that of the whole Christ.
— from St. Augustine’s commentaries on the Psalms, in today’s Office of Readings
The whole Church enters into Lent together, as a body — how has my prayer, fasting, and almsgiving during Lent linked me more closely to my own church community, and to the larger community of the Church?