Prayer and Fasting
Lent is one of those tricky times of year. It’s glorious if you get it right, but boring or depressing or disillusioning if you get it wrong. I wish I had some great words of insight to share about getting Lent right, but I’m don’t. Thankfully, several other people do:
Fr. Philip Powell, OP, at the University of Dallas gave a powerful and poetic homily for the First Sunday of Lent.
Fr. Alexander Shmemann gave some keen insights into fasting, which you can find in three sections on Brian’s Beirut blog.
Fr. Philip Powell, OP, at the University of Dallas gave a powerful and poetic homily for the First Sunday of Lent.
Fr. Alexander Shmemann gave some keen insights into fasting, which you can find in three sections on Brian’s Beirut blog.
posted by Aaron Linderman at
8:57 AM
2 Comments:
It isn't boring and depressing if you get it "wrong." Not if it makes you realize even more intensely your own weakness, and the fact that you owe everything to Christ.
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Santiago, at 3:07 PM, March 05, 2007
Point taken. I suppose what I should have written was something about the possibility of Lent merely being boring and depressing. So long as it's redemptive, as you suggest, it is as it ought to be.
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Aaron Linderman, at 9:27 PM, March 05, 2007
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