In the Latin Mass, the Epistle this past Sunday was St. Paul’s beautiful passage on charity/love: love is patient, kind, etc. Consequently, charity has been a prevalent theme in the homilies on Sunday and at Mass yesterday. Your reflection in this post is thus quite timely and continues this theme for me!
"A priest once told me we should keep our fasts forever"
This is fascinating—it has often ended up happening that, after 40 days, I no longer “crave” the thing I gave up, and my relationship with it has substantially changed, but my (overly-legalistic?) mind has always wanted to claim that the t r u l y p e n i t e n t i a l option would be to give up something that pointedly isn’t a bad habit/vice to crush forever, so there’s more potential for detachment to a true good… this perspective is freeing, ngl.
Sad that it took me more than two weeks to realize I'd missed the latest PTD. But this was a great read and insightful take on Lent. I was more than a week into Lent and felt lousy about not knowing what in the world to give up. Nothing felt "right." Instead, I decided to wake up earlier and add a daily Rosary and I've been doing that now for a little more than a week. Better late than never, right? The peace this has brought to my day is nothing short of amazing.
In the Latin Mass, the Epistle this past Sunday was St. Paul’s beautiful passage on charity/love: love is patient, kind, etc. Consequently, charity has been a prevalent theme in the homilies on Sunday and at Mass yesterday. Your reflection in this post is thus quite timely and continues this theme for me!
Thanks for inviting me to the podcast, I had a good time chatting about the faith.
Happy Lent! (Is it weird to wish people a happy Lent?)
"A priest once told me we should keep our fasts forever"
This is fascinating—it has often ended up happening that, after 40 days, I no longer “crave” the thing I gave up, and my relationship with it has substantially changed, but my (overly-legalistic?) mind has always wanted to claim that the t r u l y p e n i t e n t i a l option would be to give up something that pointedly isn’t a bad habit/vice to crush forever, so there’s more potential for detachment to a true good… this perspective is freeing, ngl.
It's odd that we often lose sight of the fact that it's all about Love. Thank you for spreading that message. 😊
Thanks for sharing a good reminder for all that Christ went before us to make a clear path to the Father!
Sad that it took me more than two weeks to realize I'd missed the latest PTD. But this was a great read and insightful take on Lent. I was more than a week into Lent and felt lousy about not knowing what in the world to give up. Nothing felt "right." Instead, I decided to wake up earlier and add a daily Rosary and I've been doing that now for a little more than a week. Better late than never, right? The peace this has brought to my day is nothing short of amazing.