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Lent and its Discontents

MATTHEW LICKONA

When I was confirmed at age fifteen, I took St. John the Baptist as my confirmation saint. ‘A voice crying out in the wilderness,’ I thought, full of adolescent pride. By Lent of 2003 I was a little older and a little more humble — if only as a result of years of sin and failure to do much crying out...

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