Elizabeth Martin Other Articles by Elizabeth MartinPrinter Friendly Version Lent: A Time for Prayer, Reflection and Giving March 1, 2007 After many years of work with Catholic Relief Services, Lent, and its seasonal period of reflection, prayer, fasting and almsgiving, grows more meaningful to me year after year. It's not just because of the stories I hear about the help that CRS provides to those who are suffering. It is the fact that with each season of Lent we are coming closer and closer to the realization of a global community — of one human family.Each Lent we...