Pietà Lenten Series–Darren McDowell–Holiness in Action (Darren McDowell says Lent challenges us in our attitude towards holiness. The readings for Monday of the 1st week of Lent encourage us to go higher than just prayer, devotions, communal worship that are essentially our inner life. These practices are important. However, our readings today clearly point to another aspect of holiness—our movement into action. Indeed, the holiness of life in love of others is equated with God’s holiness. The Leviticus reading describes this holiness as the just and loving ways we treat our brothers and sisters, giving them justice and love. In the Gospel for Monday, Jesus shares a parable about the final judgement, teaching us that when we show love to the poor, lonely, homeless, marginalised, and captive, we are showing love to him. In doing so, we reflect the holiness of God. The mystery of God is that he continually moves out in love, caring for each one of us and the whole of creation. It is this mystery which we journey towards celebrating at Easter.)