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Driving Through the Desert
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Driving Through the Desert

February 20, 2023 | Amelia Dilworth (BR ‘23)

I think Lent is like this. Representing the forty days Jesus spent in the desert fasting, praying, and overcoming temptation in the desert, Lent is not a season of self-deprivation or self-punishment. Rather, Lent is a time when we follow Jesus into the desert because nothing in the city can quench our thirst for God.

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Meditations on the Fourth Word from the Cross
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Meditations on the Fourth Word from the Cross

March 6, 2022 | By Elizabeth Propst H’23

When I close my eyes to pray, I find myself standing alone in the desert outside of Jerusalem. I am looking up at Christ’s body on the Cross. It is dark; the air is still and hot, and the world is silent except for Christ’s agonized, labored breath.

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Into The Desert
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Into The Desert

March 4, 2022 | By Stephen McNulty PM ‘25

There is something about the desert — as a site of temptation, but also as one of opportunity — that pervades Biblical literature. After all, after the Lord delivers the Israelites from Egypt, their story isn’t one of “milk and honey,” per se. Instead, it’s a story of wandering.

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Quaranta Giorni
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Quaranta Giorni

March 11, 2021 | By Justin Ferrugia TD ‘23+1

Lent is a quarantine—literally. The word “quarantine” comes from the Italian expression for the period in which any ship sailing to Venice had to stay anchored away from port during the time of plague. Quaranta Giorni: Forty Days.

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