Lenten observances are part of the tradition at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Foxboro. The Rev. Ed Cardoza, the church’s former rector, now on the staff of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, said “a lot of folks are still suffering. There’s a sense of isolation from COVID...a lot of people are feeling disconnected, feeling a need to pray in community,” including keeping Ukraine in their thoughts.
Cardoza hopes at least some of those people will be attentive to three essential elements of Lenten observance: Prayer, charity, fasting.
For people whose daily routines have been disrupted by the pandemic, it may be a time to consider what those routines actually may have meant.