During Lent we want to enter into an intimate contact with truth itself, with God. We want to experience the deepest realities of life by living them. Meditation is the means to that end. 
Gospel LK 4:24-30 Jesus said to the people in the synagogue at Nazareth: “Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place. Certainly, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah when the sky was closed for three and a half years and a severe starvation spread over the entire land. It was to none of these that Elijah was sent, but only to a widow in Zarephath in the land of Sidon. Again, there were many lepers in Israel during the time of Elisha the prophet; yet not one of them was purified, but only Naaman the Syrian.” When the people in the synagogue heard this, they were all filled with fury. They rose up, drove him out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town had been built, to throw him down headlong. But he passed through the middle of them and went away.