24 February 2024
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.
Blessed Fulton Sheen
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