Lent Mother Mary Francis Sheen’s well-reasoned

Sheen’s well-reasoned

dislocated from its true cause

Jacques Rivière wrote to his compatriot

Combining a nightmare’s forbidding ambiguity with the piercing specificity of reality

then: “How is it possible to find any real correspondence between theories of old time and those which have grown out of present-day conditions of life

Lent Mother Mary Francis Sheen’s well-reasonedBy Conrad Pepler, O. P. The Season of Lent pushes and pulls the Christian people to the foot of the Cross. The Scripture readings for Lent, in the words of Conrad Pepler, O. P., are chosen so as to lead every Christian to identify himself with Christ hanging on the Cross, and thus allow their full participation in the mystery of mankinds salvation. In her wisdom, the Church has selected from the Old and New Testaments those passages which offer