Feb 27, 2012

Contrary to what many think or feel, Lent is a time of joy. It is a time when we come back to life. It is a time when we shake off what is bad and dead in us in order to become able to live with all the vastness, all the depth, and all the intensity to which we are called.

Mar 1, 2010

Chrysostom wrote: "Do you fast? Give me proof of it by your works."
 
 
 
 

Mar 1, 2009

Contrary to what many think or feel, Lent is a time of joy. Unless we understand this quality of joy in Lent, we will make of it a monstrous caricature, a time when in God’s own name we make our life a misery. This notion of joy connected with effort, with ascetical endeavour, with strenuous effort may indeed seem strange, and yet it runs through the whole of our spiritual life, through the life of the Church and the life of the Gospel...