When I was a young priest, during the season of Lent, we wouldn't have any meetings at a diocesan or deanery level. [A diocese would be divided into deaneries, each supervised by a "rural dean" who was elected from the deanery clergy, usually for a one or two year term.] Instead, we were bid to pray and concentrate on reconciling ourselves with God, our congregations, our sense of vocation,..well, you get the picture. It was also the time when Confirmation or inquirers' classes would be held on the evenings and weekends.
This year, in the octave surrounding Ash Wednesday, a diocesan "clergy training" day, a clericus [a meeting of regional clergy only] that lingers from the old deanery system, and a regional meeting have been scheduled. ["Regions" being that which has replaced the deaneries. The only difference, besides representing a larger geographic area, is that they are no longer supervised by a deanery rector, who did so for free, but by a regional missionary who is paid to do...stuff.]
"It's Lent, we should have meetings!" is not a real compelling spirituality, is it?
What used to be a time to savor prayer and connection with God is when we now arrange, organize, and plan for a time to sit and talk about the same things that have compelled us to have meetings for three decades.