To walk in Lent with purpose is to occupy a demanding landscape. Media reports of disasters upon disasters only make more demand on us. On nights like these, the prayers we’ve internalized over these years come and pray themselves in us.
When it comes to something as vital as equal marriage, it’s only sensible for two seasoned lawyers to come together – even if it’s from opposite ends of the political spectrum.
These kids have learned that not even in good-old American business must we dominate one another.
This week saw a return to normal activity on Facebook, so whatever bug was happening last week seems to be resolved. Twitter, on the other hand, was on the quiet side other than for a couple dozen retweets, which we’re grateful for. Which service do you prefer? Have you checked out Google Buzz yet? We’re curious, so let us know.
In a cultural condition not unlike that of the Ancient Greeks, where personal ethics are subjective and it seems no one is ever totally wrong, the Judaeo-Christian approach points a way forward.
turn the one on his knees
to the one to whom all bow
Much of the zeal within the Church has always come from within the Iberian peninsula beginning with Saint Vincent of Zaragoza and continuing into the mediaeval period with Saint Dominic and, in the sixteenth century, the founders of the Jesuits and the new reformed orders; Francis Xavier, Ignatius Loyola, Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross.
Each succeeding year, Lent calls each of us to renew our ongoing commitment to the implications of the Resurrection in our own lives, here and now. But that demands both the healing of the soul and the honing of the soul, both penance and faith, both a purging of what is superfluous in our lives and the heightening, the intensifying, of what is meaningful.