Lent is a time for Christians to reflect on the ways they have disappointed God and resolve to return to him with their whole hearts, Pope Francis has said.
"To forget that God created us, he raised us and he has accompanied us in life – that is disappointing God," Pope Francis said during his early morning Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae.
Sin leads people to be unsatisfied with what God has done for them and go looking for other idols and other gods, the Pope said. The Israelites who made the golden calf -- the subject of the day's first reading from Exodus – were not an exception.
