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Who Will Fight For Truth?

03-18-2020SermonsThe Right Reverend Dom Jean Pateau, Abbot of Our Lady of Fontgombault

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
My dearly beloved Sons,

To those who come close to the time of Lent, already overwhelmed by the prospect of the traditional forms of penance they are going to have to carry out, fasting, prayer, and almsgiving, today’s Gospel doesn’t seem to bring much comfort.

Through a two-fold teaching, the Church, as she repeats the Lord’s words, gives to the faithful at the beginning of the most important period in the liturgical year a precious and uncompromising line of conduct, which hunts down to its very tiniest recesses the slight compensations we would like to find to soften somewhat the austerities of penance.

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