Lent
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On Patience, and Coming Home
As I look over my paper journal for the second week of Lent, there’s an unplanned overarching theme: Patience. “O Lord my God, be patient, as you always are, with the men of this world as you watch them and see how strictly they obey the rules of grammar which have been handed down to… Continue reading
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On Sin, Imperfection, and St. Augustine
We didn’t have RCIA this week, but I had some reading materials from the last class to keep me busy. Thus my first full week of Lent began with a lecture on the severity of sin. I don’t know about you, but I beat myself up over it. I make promises to change: No grumbling… Continue reading
And they said to him, “Inquire of God, we pray thee, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”
And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the LORD.”
—Judges 18:5–6