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Introduction to Lent: Almsgiving
MIKE AQUILINA
Of the three marks of Lent — prayer, fasting and almsgiving — almsgiving is surely the most neglected.

Entering into Lent
SAINT JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN
Let not the year go round and round, without a break and interruption in its circle of pleasures.

The purpose of Lent
POPE BENEDICT XVI
What does it mean to become a Christian.

T.S. Eliot's Long Lent
FATHER DWIGHT LONGENECKER
T.S. Eliot's secret baptism in 1927 marked one of the most remarkable literary conversions of the modern age.

Unlearning Ourselves in Lent
BLESSED JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN
The season of humiliation, which precedes Easter, lasts for forty days, in memory of our Lord's long fast in the wilderness. . . .

Saying No in Lent
JOHN A. CUDDEBACK
Saying 'no' to some things has great importance in life because we want to say 'yes' to something else. 

Lent: A Call to Purification
FR. LEONARD M. PUECH
Lent is the annual call to purify our souls for the great feast of Easter, figure of the eternal Easter, for which the soul must be perfectly pure.

Lent: Purification from Natural Motives
FR. LEONARD M. PUECH
Man is not a pure spirit. All his actions do not spring from his spiritual nature. A good part — if not all — comes from his animal instincts, and often these instincts go to excess, passing the bounds of reason.

A Little Way Through Lent
FATHER DWIGHT LONGENECKER
The Little Way through Lent is charged with the desire to make small sacrifices that are burning with the heart of Christ's love in the world.

Lent: A preparation for grace
FATHER PIUS PARSCH
The aim and object of Lent is not just penance, but grace.

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