“The season of Lent gives time for meditation, for reading of God’s word, for prayer, and for deeds of charity and love, and should be welcomed by every Christian heart as one of the dearest resting places of life. That which makes it dearer is that the Church is leading us along the footsteps of our Saviour until, standing at the foot of the cross, we read the infinite testimony of the infinite love of God who “so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822-1901) Episcopal Bishop of Minnesota in Lent: The Holy Season (Neale Publishing Company, 1902) 18-19.