. . . no one who learns to know himself remains just what he was before. — Thomas Mann Through prayer, meditation, fasting, and service we change, bit by bit, day by day. Lent is all about learning about ourselves and change. A week ago on Ash Wednesday as you began your Lenten discipline, you…
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Tuesday in the First Week of Lent
My father was a big proponent of “walking in another man’s shoes” before we passed judgment. As a young boy I said a lot of stupid things and my father would remind me to look at things from a different perspective. Time and wisdom have taught me that the simple phrase “walk in someone else’s…
Monday In The First Week of Lent
People ask, “do you read other meditations?” The answer is of course I do. The best being not necessarily the truest or the most eloquent, but those that give me pause to think and create in me a desire to read the words again, and meditate and pray over their meaning and what the words…
First Sunday In Lent
At the beginning of Lent we have expectations. If we are fasting for example, we expect to lose weight, but to expect to lose forty pounds in forty days is not realistic. But it isn’t wrong to expect progress or to feel better. If you serve others it is not unrealistic to feel good about…
Saturday After Ash Wednesday
“Indifference to our neighbor and to God also represents a real temptation for us Christians. Usually, when we are healthy and comfortable, we forget about others (something God the Father never does): we are unconcerned with their problems, their sufferings and the injustices they endure… Our heart grows cold. As long as I am relatively…