with Fr. Alban Waggener
After a year of posting these reflections, I have decided to “fast” from blog entries for Lent this year. I offer this Litany I found as a suggested prayer/meditation for your Lenten pilgrimage.
A Litany for Humility
Continue reading “Reflections on Reflections”And He said this to prove him, for He Himself knew what He would do. John 6
I suspect that most people would likely consider St. Antony to be a little crazy selling all that he had, giving it to the poor, and deciding to live by himself in the Egyptian desert, struggling there to find out what it took to live out the teachings of the Gospel in thought, word, and deed. But in fact, St. Antony had decided that righteousness was an end worth pursuing in itself.
We are now into our Lenten pilgrimage as brothers and sisters in the communion of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ. As such, I thought it a good time to answer a question that has come to me about this blog.
We begin Lent with the reading of the account of Jesus temptation in the wilderness, uniting our meager fast to His own. But as we look more closely at the two accounts in St. Matthew and St. Luke, some interesting points are revealed.