Month: February 2024

I SUNDAY OF LENT: 18 February 2024

Scripture Reflection

ALONEGenesis 9:8-15; 1 Peter 3:18-22; Mark 1:12-15 Many years ago, the explorer Richard Byrd spent a winter alone at the South Pole. Four and a half months in solitude. Why?  Byrd answers that question in his book Alone. Despite his numerous achievements, he felt empty. He wanted to get away “remote from all but the simplest distractions, with no necessities but those imposed by the wind and night and cold.”  Byrd emerged from his experience changed. He discovered that one can live more deeply and profoundly if one keeps life simple, without cluttering it with things. Byrd is like many

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