Second Sunday of Lent
Of all the questions with which the Lenten journey to the center of the soul confronts us, the one that emerges out of the gospel of the Second Sunday of Lent may be the most determining of them all. Once this question is answered, everything else falls in place, an uneasy place, perhaps, but in place, nevertheless. The question is a deceptive one, simple at one level, dangerously profound at another. The question of the second week of Lent is not "What ...