BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Lay Cistercians of Gethsemani Abbey - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Lay Cistercians of Gethsemani Abbey
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Lay Cistercians of Gethsemani Abbey
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20230312T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20231105T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20240310T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20241103T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20250309T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20251102T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240219
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240220
DTSTAMP:20260419T185927
CREATED:20240217T144318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240217T144318Z
UID:11594-1708300800-1708387199@laycisterciansofgethsemani.org
SUMMARY:Lenten Weekday
DESCRIPTION:THE LIGHT OF LENT \nBy Thomas Merton 2\n◊◊◊\nThere is confidence everywhere in Lent\, yet that does not mean unmixed\nand untroubled security. The confidence of the Christian is always a confidence\nin spite of darkness and risk\, in the presence of peril\, with every evidence of\npossible disaster. “Let us amend for the better in those things in which we have\nsinned through ignorance: lest suddenly overtaken by the day of death we seek\nspace for repentance and are not able to find it.” The last words are sobering\nindeed. And note\, it is the sins we have not been fully aware of that we must\namend. Once again\, Lent is not just a time for squaring conscious accounts: but\nfor realizing what we had perhaps not seen before. The light of Lent is given us\nto help us with this realization… \nNevertheless the liturgy of Lent is not focused on the sinfulness of the\npenitent but on the mercy of God. The question of sinfulness is raised precisely\nbecause this is a time of mercy\, and the just do not need a Savior. Nowhere will\nwe find more tender expressions of the divine mercy than at this season. His\nmercy is kind… How good are these words of Wisdom in a time when on all\nsides the Lord is thought by mortals to be a God who hates. Those who deny\nHim say they do so because evil in the world could be the work only of a God\nthat hated the world. \nBut even those who profess to love Him regard Him too often as a furious\nFather\, who seeks only to punish and revenge Himself for the evil that is done\n“against Him” – One who cannot abide the slightest contradiction but will\nimmediately mark it down for retribution\, and will not let a farthing of the debt\ngo unpaid. \nThis is not the God\, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ\, who Himself\n“hides” our sins and gets them out of sight\, like a mother making quick and\nefficient repairs on the soiled face of a child just before entering a house where\nhe ought to appear clean. The words of the Lenten liturgies know Him only as\nthe “God who desires not the death of the sinner”\, “who is moved by\nhumiliation and appeased by satisfaction”. He is everywhere shown to us as\n“plenteous in mercy”. \nAnd from the infinite treasure of His mercies He draws forth the gift of\ncompunction. This is a sorrow without servile fear\, which is all the more deep\nand tender as it receives pardon from the tranquil\, calm love of the merciful\nLord… The God of Lent is like a calm sea of mercy. In Him there is no anger.\nThis “hiding” of God’s severity is not a subterfuge. It is a revelation of His true\nnature. He is not severe\, and it is not theologically accurate to say that He\nbecomes angry\, that He is moved to hurt and to punish. \nHe is love. Love becomes severe only to those who make Him severe for\nthemselves. Love is hard only to those who refuse Him. It is not\, and cannot be\nLove’s will to be refused. Therefore it is not and cannot be Love’s will to be\nsevere and punish. But it is the very nature of Love that His absence is sorrow\nand death and punishment. His severity flows not from His own nature but\nfrom the fact of our refusal. Those who refuse Him are severe to themselves\,\nand immolate themselves to the blood-thirsty god of their own self-love. It is\nfrom this idol that Love would deliver us. To such bitter servitude\, Love would\nnever condemn us. \n2 Seasons of Celebration – Farrar\, Straus & Giroux – NY – 1965 – pg. 118.
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/lenten-weekday/
CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR