Today is Ash Wednesday and it marks the beginning of Lent in the Church’s liturgical year, a time of prayer, fasting and alms giving. In the Blogosphere, you’ll also hear a lot of talk about the 1-1-1 Plan.
I’ve decided to take a bit of a break from publishing anything of my own for the next forty days (with just a few exceptions). Instead of regular blog entries, I have scheduled my favourite quotations from one of the most recent books I’ve finished, Sayings of the Desert Fathers.
This means that I’ll I won’t be commenting on the secular media shenanigans concerning Pope Benedict’s resignation and the new Pope’s election. For this I’m actually quite thankful! As far as I’m concerned, Cardinal Arinze has said all that needed to be said:
We’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming on Easter Sunday.
God bless!
Restless Pilgrim.
Scott Alt
February 13, 2013 at 1:38 pm
Looks like a number of us have the same idea for Lent of taking a break from blogging. I decided to do that myself after reading Brandon Vogt this morning.
I really admire Cardinal Arinze–I watched that video yesterday and found myself saying, “If only he were younger …”
pilgrim
February 13, 2013 at 2:40 pm
Hey Scott,
Welcome to Restless Pilgrim!
> “Looks like a number of us have the same idea for Lent of taking a break from blogging. I decided to do that myself after reading Brandon Vogt this morning.”
Yeah, Brandon is the man
> “I really admire Cardinal Arinze–I watched that video yesterday and found myself saying, ‘If only he were younger…’”
Well, the last old man we had did rather well