In his general audience on Wednesday, Pope Francis spoke about the importance of Lent as a time for each of us “to promote change and conversion” in our lives.

Lent, the Pope said should help us to get out of “the tired habits and lazy addictions to evil that deceive us.

During this season, we are invited to be more keenly aware of the redemptive work of Christ, “and to live out our Baptism with greater commitment.

“This journey of spiritual renewal in the footsteps of Christ also calls us to acknowledge and respond to the growing spiritual and material poverty in our midst.”

“Specifically, it means consciously resisting the pressure of a culture which thinks it can do without, where parents no longer train their children to pray, where violence, poverty and social decay are taken for granted.

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