to be close to him, but sometimes we are so busy that we forget this. we need to stop for a while - to think about and renew our relationship with god.
child: lent is a special time when we can stop and think about this relationship. when we do this, we are like jesus who went into the desert for forty days. he did this so he could think deeply, about god his father.
priest: we are not asked to go into the desert, but we are asked to spend the time of lent thinking deeply about ourselves and our love for god. we can only do better in the future 