In this third week of Lent, quotes posted to social media (Facebook, Instagram, X) continued the duality of a Laudato Si’ Lent and a Lent of the way of the Cross.

To love sufferings and afflictions for the love of God is the highest degree of holy charity. — Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange

Contemplation, which leads us to an attitude of care, is not a question of looking at nature from the outside, as if we were not immersed in it. But we are inside nature, we are part of nature. Rather, it is done from within, recognizing ourselves as part of creation, making us protagonists and not mere spectators of an amorphous reality that is only to be exploited. Those who contemplate in this way experience wonder not only at what they see, but also because they feel they are an integral part of this beauty; and they also feel called to guard it and to protect it. — Pope Francis

Without ever having seen him with my senses, nevertheless, all his creatures are like a voice, like a sign which is part of him and which impels me to admire him. The fields appear to me from day to day dressed in a great splendour, and make me reach closer into the heart of God. — Marcel Văn

To arrive at this root of being and the union that transforms, we must accept the void, that is, the active renunciation of all things insofar as they are not God, and passively accept the work of grace, which completes in us its task of emptying us of all attachment. — Arturo Paoli

With no abode but in heaven
As a bird on the tree,
On the branches of the Cross
Your cruel rest will be.
In the peace of this refuge
– Bitter bitterness
Rest like the bird,
Without root in the earth,
On this tree where dies your God.
Raïssa Maritain