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March 22, 2026 · Faith
We close our week on faith, the thirty-seventh day of Lent, and Aquinas himself provides the bridge to what comes next. Faith is first, he says, but not greatest. It is the foundation, but the building that rises from...
Read the dayMarch 21, 2026 · Faith
Thirty-six days into our Lenten journey, Chesterton offers his own defense of the faith, not as a system of prohibitions but as a key that unlocks the meaning of everything. Our exploration of faith this week has taken...
Read the dayMarch 20, 2026 · Faith
Thirty-five days into Lent, Pope Francis draws together many of the threads we have been weaving throughout this journey. Faith is not opposed to the cardinal virtues we cultivated in the first four weeks; it...
Read the dayMarch 19, 2026 · Faith
Thirty-four days into Lent, Lewis names the experience that many of us know all too well: the mood that whispers "none of this is real." Our pilgrimage through the seven virtues has been sustained and demanding, and by...
Read the dayMarch 18, 2026 · Faith
Thirty-three days deep in Lent, and Augustine offers us the radical humility that lies at the heart of faith. Our journey through the virtues reaches a turning point here: for the first time, we encounter a virtue that...
Read the dayMarch 17, 2026 · Faith
Thirty-two days into Lent, the great cloud of witnesses returns, this time not to teach fortitude but to exemplify faith. Our Lenten pilgrimage has been building toward this: the recognition that human virtue, however...
Read the dayMarch 16, 2026 · Faith
We cross the threshold. Thirty-one days into Lent, we leave the cardinal virtues behind and enter the realm of the theological virtues, beginning with faith. This is a new kind of territory. The virtues of the past four...
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