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We Can Think Of Lent As A Time To Eradicate Evil Or Cultivate Virtue, A Time To Pull Up Weeds Or To Plant Good Seeds. Which Is Better Is Clear, For The Christian Ideal Is Always Positive Rather Than Negative. A Person Is Great Not By The Ferocity Of His Hatred Of Evil, But By The Intensity Of His Love For God. Asceticism And Mortification Are Not The Ends Of A Christian Life; They Are Only The Means. The End Is Charity. Penance Merely Makes An Opening In Our Ego In Which The Light Of God Can Pour. As We Deflate Ourselves, God Fills Us. And It Is God’s Arrival That Is The Important Event.

The Forgiveness Of God Is One Thing, But The Proof That We Want That Forgiveness Is The Energy We Expend To Make Amends For The Wrong.

Baloney Is Flattery Laid On So Thick It Cannot Be True, And Blarney Is Flattery So Thin We Love It.

The Term Science Means Something Quite Different For Our Generation Than It Did Not So Many Generations Ago.

The Rosary Is The Best Therapy For These Distraught, Unhappy, Fearful, And Frustrated Souls, Precisely Because It Involves The Simultaneous Use Of Three Powers: The Physical, The Vocal, And The Spiritual, And In That Order.