Were We Made to Be 'Happy'?

"Happy" is unlikely an adjective most people associate with Lent. By the First Sunday of Lent, Catholics in the United States will have already experienced their one (of a whole two) fast days of the year and returned to Friday abstinence (which used to be year round). We talk about what we will "give up" for Lent, and we hear of penance. What’s "happy?"