Lent is a time of conversion when we think again about who we have become and who God calls us to be. Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and continues until Holy Thursday.  During this period we reshape ourselves and seek to put on the attitude of Christ.  We are encouraged to follow the traditional Lenten disciplines of prayer, fasting and almsgiving.  The cross of Christ stands before us throughout this forty-day season.  We are marked with the sign in ashes; we journey the way of the cross through the devotional stations; we venerate the wood of the cross on Good Friday and we lift it high throughout the Easter season.