Purpose of the Tool: To discern your practice for Lent using the Rule of St. Benedict as a guide. Background on the Tool: It is important that we discern a practice for Lent that fits us and helps us towards a life most pure and opening the heart to the joy of the...
Reframing Lent “You have turned my mourning into dancing; you have taken off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy, so that my soul may praise you and not be silent.” Psalm 30:11, 12a Ash Wednesday is just around the corner. Can you envision where your...
Purpose of the Tool: To embrace an extra spiritual practice normally done in Lent during at any season or time of the year. Background on the Tool: In the newsletter article for this issue I suggested that we can have a “Lenten” spiritual practice any time of the year...
Living A Somewhat Continuous Lent The life of a monastic ought to be a continuous Lent. RB 49.1 At this month’s meeting of my Benedictine Spirituality group, one of the members confessed that she was going to miss her Lenten discipline. “I need to continue this,” she...