Listening to the Masters

Bishop Elect Benny Sagra, Diocesan Head of the Canonical Catholic Church of the Celtic Cross, licensed by the Celtic Cross Ministry and Head Chaplain of St. John the Evangelist Chapel at Laguna Woods, California hosts a Radio program focused on the teachings of the Masters of Spiritual Life - old and contemporary. Today's episode is about the 5 Principles of the Lenten Practices proposed by St. Benedict. These 5 Principles are: 1) Refraining from sin, 2) Prayer with tears, 3) Holy Reading, 4) Repentance, 5) Abstinence /Fasting from food "Lent is a journey, a pilgrimage! Yet, as we begin it, as we make the first step into the "bright sadness" of Lent, we see ---- far away ---- the destination. It is joy of Easter; it is the entrance into the glory of the Kingdom. And it is the vision, the foretaste of Easter, that makes Lent's sadness bright and our Lenten effort a "spiritual spring." - FR. ALEXANDER SCHEMEMANN, Great Lent

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