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If the Reality of God were small enough to be grasped, it would not be great enough to be adored; and so our holiest privilege would go.  "I count not myself to have grasped; but as one that has been grasped, I press on," says Saint Paul.  But if all real knowledge here is a… Continue reading Monday of the First Week in Lent: God Makes, Loves, Keeps – Evelyn Underhill

For God, not man, is the first term of religion: and our first step in religion is the acknowledgement that He Is.  All else is the unfolding of those truths about His life and our life, which this fact of facts involves.  I believe in One God.  We begin there; not with our own needs,… Continue reading First Sunday in Lent: God and Self Love

First Saturday In Lent: The Three Counsels Considered First – think of Poverty.  Even outward Poverty, a hard and simple life, the dropping for love’s sake of the many things we feel we “must have” is a great help in the way of the Spirit.  Far more precious is that inward Poverty of which it… Continue reading First Saturday In Lent: The Three Counsels Considered

First Friday in Lent: The Three Counsels – Evelyn Underhill Each person’s discipline, of course, will be different because what God wants from each of us is different.  Some are called to an active and some to a passive life, some to very homely and some to hard and sacrificial careers, some to quiet suffering. … Continue reading First Friday in Lent: The Three Counsels

First Thursday in Lent THE SPIRITUAL LIFE: BELIEF AND PRAYER THE spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence; but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God and bear the cost. Till we accept this truth, religion… Continue reading THE SPIRITUAL LIFE: BELIEF AND PRAYER – First Thursday in Lent