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April 4, 2026 · Charity
Holy Saturday. The final day of Lent. Fifty days since the journey began, and we rest in the silence between the cross and the resurrection. The tomb is sealed. The world holds its breath. And in this silence, Benedict...
Read the dayApril 3, 2026 · Charity
Good Friday. The journey ends here, at the foot of the cross. Forty-nine days since the ashes were placed on our foreheads, and everything has been leading to this moment: the moment when love is stretched to its...
Read the dayApril 2, 2026 · Charity
Holy Thursday. Forty-eight days of Lent, and we arrive at the night that changes everything. Tonight, in churches around the world, the events of the Last Supper will be reenacted, the washing of feet, the breaking of...
Read the dayApril 1, 2026 · Charity
Wednesday of Holy Week. Forty-seven days of Lent, and Paul sets the crown upon the entire journey. Faith, hope, and love abide, but the greatest is love. Every virtue we have cultivated, every reading we have pondered,...
Read the dayMarch 31, 2026 · Charity
The second day of Holy Week. Forty-six days into our Lenten journey, and Augustine gives us what may be the most liberating sentence in all of Christian ethics: "Love, and do what you will." After six weeks of careful...
Read the dayMarch 30, 2026 · Charity
Holy Week begins. Palm Sunday. Forty-five days into Lent, we arrive at the virtue for which all others exist: love. Charity. The form of all the virtues, the mother and root, the one thing without which everything else...
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