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For the main meal on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, the brothers are
to be content with bread and water or something similar.
- OCSO Constitutions of the Monks, Statute 28A.
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We would like to wish everyone a blessed Lenten season. May it be filled
with grace for you and your loved ones.
From Guerric of Igny's Sermon for the Second Week of Lent
- on the prodidgal son, Luke 15:11-32:
ubique misericordia praevenit. Praevenerat voluntatem confessionis,
ipsam inspirando: praevenit et vocem confessionis, quod confitendum
erat indulgendo. Cum adhuc, inquit, longe esset, vidit illum
pater ipsius, et misericordia motus est; et accurrens cecidit super
collum ejus, et osculatus est eum.
Quantum haec verba sonare videntur, tardius videbatur patri filio
veniam dedisse, quam illi accepisse.
Everywhere mercy precedes. It preceded the desire of the confession,
in fact it inspired it. And it will precede the expression of the
confession, because what was to be confessed was already forgiven.
"When he was still far off," the scripture says, "his father saw him,
and was moved to pity. And running, he fell upon his neck and kissed
him."
How much these words seem to say that the father was even more anxious to
give his pardon to the son than the son was to receive pardon.
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