February 13 Ash Wednesday My sacrifice is this broken spirit: you will not scorn this crushed and broken heart. (Psalm 51:17) Popular understanding sees repentance as gloomy introspection, but in Christian tradition it contains an essential note of hope. The cry of John the Baptist points to a better world, a world in which “those who have two coats share with those who have none”. Read and meditate on Luke 3:1-14
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