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14 Feb 2018
The Fast Before the Feast
The Lenten fast is often neglected or misunderstood. But this season offers the time and place to make us freer and stronger. There’s a reason why fasting sounds exhausting. There’s a reason why people feel uncomfortable just envisioning a forty-day stretch of abstaining from certain foods or activities. The Lenten season is, after all, a long and tiring period for its participants. It’s hard. That becomes clear in the last days of Lent—the days