“We have one objective: to acquire hearts of pure and vigilant worship. But we have a problem. Something in us blocks us from God. It makes us oblivious. Instead of a life of peace, we get strung out, anxious, angry, and exhausted. Something in us needs to die. We have to be purged and remade. This is why Christ fasted for forty days in the desert. This is why the Church invites us to join Him in the Great Fast of Lent.”
(Fr Peter Cavanaugh,  orthodoxwest.com)