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Lent invites us to engage the works of the Father with renewed vigor. Just as Jesus did all things for the Father, so prayer must come first, reorienting our lives and all our actions to God. A dedicated time of prayer each day enables all our actions to become works done on behalf of the Father to honor him and make him known. Through fasting, we fight against the pride and material comfort that lead to works focusing on oneself. By embracing asceticism and penance, we battle the idol of self that crowds out works performed for God and neighbor. Finally, in almsgiving, we can feed those who hunger, not simply fulfilling a bodily need but manifesting the love of the Father to them. The works of mercy as a whole become tangible expressions of God’s presence to the suffering.

Prayer, fasting and almsgiving will help us to follow after Jesus, taking on the works he performed to make the Father known and to draw others to him.

Full article here -The Works of the Father: How Jesus Teaches Us to Live