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Lenten tension, velvet gloves, and watching ‘with love’

The Friday Pillar Post

Ed. Condon
Mar 07, 2025
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Happy Friday, friends,

It’s Lent, again, obviously.

And Lent isn’t a season one can reasonably say one looks forward to, exactly. Prayer, penance, fasting, and almsgiving are the most salutary of disciplines, but they aren’t any reasonable person’s idea of a good time.

I was st…

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