A Peaceful and Blessed Lent is an appropriate greeting, Meredith. "Happy" is also appropriate even when the season calls for atonement, abstinence, and reflections on the Passion at Triduum. Lent, whilst it is visibly sorrowful in practice and tradition, is also a happy event because we anticipate Easter and the renewal significance thereof. Laetare Sunday (Fourth Sunday of Lent), is a break in the middle of the austerity of the Lenten season, which serves as a reminder that reflections need not be all forlorn but, hopeful.
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