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March 29, 2026 · Hope
We close our week of hope on the forty-fourth day of Lent, and Aquinas draws together hope and patience into a single chord. Tomorrow begins Holy Week, the final, climactic week of our journey, devoted to the greatest...
Read the dayMarch 28, 2026 · Hope
Forty-three days of Lent. We are in the final days before Holy Week, and Ignatius brings us to the radical edge of hope: total surrender. Our Lenten pilgrimage has been building to this point, from the careful...
Read the dayMarch 27, 2026 · Hope
Forty-two days into Lent, Lewis names the ache that lies beneath all our lesser desires. Our journey through the virtues has been peeling back layers, from the outer disciplines of action to the inner landscape of faith...
Read the dayMarch 26, 2026 · Hope
Forty-one days into Lent, Augustine reveals hope's secret: it is already a form of joy. Our long journey through the virtues has been demanding, six weeks of discipline, self-examination, and sustained attention. But...
Read the dayMarch 25, 2026 · Hope
Forty days of Lent. We have reached the traditional number, forty days, echoing Israel in the desert, Jesus in the wilderness, Moses on the mountain. Our pilgrimage through the virtues has brought us deep into the...
Read the dayMarch 24, 2026 · Hope
Thirty-nine days into our Lenten journey, Paul gives us the paradox at the heart of Christian hope: it is born from suffering. This is not masochism; it is the testimony of a man who was beaten, imprisoned, shipwrecked,...
Read the dayMarch 23, 2026 · Hope
Thirty-eight days into Lent, we arrive at hope, the virtue that faces forward, toward Easter and beyond. Our pilgrimage has been long and demanding: six weeks of building virtue upon virtue, of fasting, praying, and...
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