Pope Wants You To Give Up Indifference For Lent

Pope Francis leads the Ash Wednesday mass opening Lent, the forty-day period of abstinence and deprivation for Christians, before Holy Week and Easter on February 18, 2015 at Santa Sabina church in Rome. AFP PHOTO POOL / GABRIEL BOUYSGABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images

This year the Pope is saying you don’t need to worry about quitting chocolate or pizza or some other personal vice. Instead he wants you to give up indifference.

“Indifference to our neighbor and to God also represents a real temptation for us Christians. Each year during Lent we need to hear once more the voice of the prophets who cry out and trouble our conscience.”

OK so drink up…cool.

Read more at time.com.

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