Lent Begins with My Spouse

[Michie]

This title can sound like a joke on my wife. It is not. (More truly it could be a joke on me.) Marriage is at the center of the life-drama of anyone who is married. It is always a fitting place to begin again, to start afresh. Especially in Lent.

A classic principle regarding Lenten practices is to focus on what needs changing in our life. In other words, it is a perfect time to resolve to improve in some area where our hearts need to grow. I do not know a man who would say he loves his wife as he should; as he wants to. This is not surprising, in view of this stunning directive of St. Paul: “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church and delivered himself up for it.”

I think this is one of those lines that on hearing we move forward in a sort of numb shock. In this way it is parallel to when the Christian vocation itself, and even simply the notion of living out true virtue, begins to dawn on us. Can this really be done?

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Lent Begins with My Spouse - LifeCraft

This title can sound like a joke on my wife. It is not. (More truly it could be a joke on me.) Marriage is at the center of the life-drama of anyone who is married. It is always a fitting place to begin again, to start afresh. Especially in Lent. A classic principle regarding Lenten […]

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