Speaking to a book club, a member asked, “What is the best lesson you learned from playing football?” Well, that’s a tough question, but one answer is what I heard after every game or practice: “Men, there’s plenty of room for improvement.” So, when I’m asked why I observe Lent and why do I emphasize…

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Attachment is the mind stuck to an object. — Lama Zopa Rinpoche, The Door to Satisfaction The Lenten Season is the perfect time to lose attachments to objects, whether it be the object that is the subject of our fast or an attachment that inhibits our service to a neighbor.   I would also suggest to the Lama…

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Rabbi who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, neither this man nor his parents sinned, he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him. — John 9:3 Wouldn’t the world be a better place if we weren’t always trying to cast blame? In Sunday’s gospel, Jesus’s…

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I’m going to show my age. Spring around my grandmother’s house meant spring cleaning. All the windows were opened, rugs were taken outside to be cleaned and dried, shelves were cleared, and lots of accumulated stuff was either stored or thrown away. In some ways the Lenten season is like a spring cleaning. I think…

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Total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation — St. Augustine I love this quote because it is so vey true. The Lenten season brings this wisdom home for me every year. One oatmeal raisin cookie will send me off on a bender, where if I can totally abstain I might just make it forty days. (Notice…

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