Each day of Lent (minus Sundays) we'll bring you words of wisdom from spiritual guides. 20. Fyodor M. Dostoevsky: Choose to love Christ said, "Go and give all you have to the poor and become the servant of all," for if you do that, you'll become a thousand times richer because your happiness won't be made just of good food, rich clothes, satisfied vanity, and appeased envy.

If there is one thing European bishops should have learned from U.S. sex abuse crisis, it's don't blame the messenger.

Each day of Lent (minus Sundays) we'll bring you words of wisdom from spiritual guides. 19. Edwina Gateley: Contemplative prayer When I was a small girl, I was fascinated by all things religious and holy. God, obviously, fitted squarely into that category.

Each day of Lent (minus Sundays) we'll bring you words of wisdom from spiritual guides. 18. Mohandas Gandhi: Fasting and the voice of God Fasting for the sake of unfoldment of the spirit is a discipline I hold to be absolutely necessary at some stage or other in the evolution of an individual.

The story of the 5-year-old girl who will not be admitted to kindergarten at her Catholic elementary school because her parents are a lesbian couple is burning up the web, notably on the blog of the pastor, where the comments certainly lean against the decision.

Each day of Lent (minus Sundays) we'll bring you words of wisdom from spiritual guides. 17. Thomas à Kempis: Silence and solitude Set aside an opportune time for deep personal reflection, and think often about God's many benefits to you. Give up all light and frivolous matters, and read what inspires you to repentance of soul and not just what entertains the mind.

Each day of Lent (minus Sundays) we'll bring you words of wisdom from spiritual guides. 16. Jessica Powers: Repairer of fences I am alone in the dark, and I am thinking what darkness would be mine if I could see the ruin I wrought in every place I wandered and if I could not be aware of One who follows after me. Whom do I love, O God, when I love Thee?

Each day of Lent (minus Sundays) we'll bring you words of wisdom from spiritual guides. 15. Frederica Mathewes-Green: Asking and giving forgiveness One evening recently the members of my parish formed a big circle inside the church. The ends of the circle overlapped and my husband, the priest, faced a subdeacon.

Each day of Lent (minus Sundays) we'll bring you words of wisdom from spiritual guides. 14. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Discipleship and death Whoever enters discipleship enters Jesus' death, and puts his or her own life into death; this has been so from the beginning. The cross is not the horrible end of a pious, happy life, but stands rather at the beginning of community with Jesus Christ.