Beirut (Agenzia Fides) - The Eastern Churches begin the penitential season of Lent while earthquakes, poverty, conflicts and political crises continue to sow pain and anguish in the region. The Patriarchs of the Eastern Catholic Churches have opened the time of the "great fast" with long and intense pastoral letters in which they have resorted to the writings of the Fathers and the great Eastern theologians to propose how to live the forty days prior to the passion, death and resurrection of Christ the Redeemer. In this way, thanks to their grateful memory of the spiritual patrimony of their Churches, the authors of the Letters did not offer empty neo-conformist slogans and puns, but useful contributions to live the Lenten season as a propitious time to wait for the Easter encounter with Jesus, finding comfort even in the midst of the new tribulations that torment the peoples of the Middle East.Leggi su Agenzia Fides