Giving Away Instead of Giving Up: Rethinking Lent Through Mark 10:17-27

(Terjemahan dalam bahasa Indonesia tersedia di bawah, sesudah References.) Lent has just begun, and I already feel uneasy. As it happens, the Bible reading from Monday Mass—just two days before the start of Lent—was one of my “least favorites.” It’s the story from Mark 10:17-27, where a good, religious man asks Jesus, “What must I …