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Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things.
---Thomas Merton

Tag: prophets

First Sunday of Lent

The best word to characterize the daily Mass readings of Lent is dismal. Even today’s Hebrew Scripture portion, in which Moses discusses how God kicked some Egyptian tail and why that deserves some dap and some grub, emphasizes words like “suffer” and “toil” and “harsh” and “oppression” and I have no shortage of further [...]