Lent is about how to live in paradise…now. It’s a great rescue story, the story of us being pulled out of slavery and into the Promised Land (but to do that we must go through the desert).
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How To Go Into The Desert: Entering The Wild, Scary, Interior Battle Of Lent
“Though in Your sight I despise myself and reckon myself dust and ashes, there is something I know about You, which I know not about myself.” - Augustine, The Confessions A few days ago I was with some close friends in Subiaco, (where St. Benedict first founded a...