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March 15, 2026 · Temperance
Thirty days of Lent complete. We close the cardinal virtues today, and what a journey it has been. Prudence gave us eyes to see; justice turned those eyes outward to our neighbor; fortitude gave us the spine to endure...
Read the dayMarch 14, 2026 · Temperance
Twenty-nine days into Lent, Chesterton reminds us that temperance, rightly understood, is the gateway to joy. Our month-long journey through the cardinal virtues is nearly complete. Tomorrow we close temperance and...
Read the dayMarch 13, 2026 · Temperance
Twenty-eight days, four full weeks, of Lent are nearly complete. We have traveled far: through prudence, justice, fortitude, and now temperance. Today, Benedict the abbot brings the same earthy realism he brought to...
Read the dayMarch 12, 2026 · Temperance
Twenty-seven days into Lent, Lewis shows us temperance's subtlest adversary: the intemperance that looks like refinement. Our journey through the virtues has been teaching us to see more clearly, to act more justly, to...
Read the dayMarch 11, 2026 · Temperance
Twenty-six days of Lent have passed, and Paul places temperance in its proper context: not as a grim exercise of willpower but as a fruit of the Spirit's work within us. Our journey through the virtues has been...
Read the dayMarch 10, 2026 · Temperance
Twenty-five days into Lent, Augustine lays bare the cost of intemperance with searing honesty. Our journey through the virtues has been building toward this moment of reckoning with our own appetites. Prudence showed us...
Read the dayMarch 9, 2026 · Temperance
We enter the fourth week of Lent and the last of the cardinal virtues: temperance, the virtue of self-mastery. Our journey has taken us from prudence's clear sight through justice's outward demands and fortitude's...
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