Lent is a minor movement in the symphony of the church year, the dissonance that opens into the resolution of Easter.
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Lent inoculates against sentimentalism.
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Lent tunes us to the broken beauty of the world.
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Lent strips off layers of self-deception and self-defense that screen us from the Risen Christ.
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Lent is not for doing things we never do otherwise. Like Sunday, Lent is for intensifying things we do all the time.
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The church year is painted in chiaroscuro. Without the darker hues of Lent, Easter is two-dimensional.
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Lent teaches us to cross our eyes: “For if the eye seek good objects, and will take / No cross from bad, we cannot ‘scape a snake.” -Donne
From 40+ Reasons for Lent, an exaltation of tweets by Peter Leithart
(http://www.leithart.com/2012/04/04/40-reasons-for-lent/)
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