My 2 highlights during this Lenten season have been going to Stations of the Cross at St. Agnes on Fridays and 2 books about men of incredible faith. Going to Stations of the Cross at St. Agnes this year and hearing the reflections and seeing the images for each station of what Jesus endured and suffered for me has brought me to a new level of heart ache for my own sins. The reflections are beautiful as they exhort a person to never separate himself from the love of Jesus again by grievous sin.
My other highlight has been reading Father Gereon Goldmann's "The Shadow of His Wings" and reflecting on the book "He Leadth Me" by Walter Ciszek. Both of these men are saints, I really believe. They tell their stories and their faith is absolutely astounding. They both lived during WWII and endured unbelievable conditions including solitary confinement, POW camps, personal rejection and persecution for their catholic faith. They way their write their accounts is little episode after episode of how God works in their lives. It is riveting and jolting at how the Holy Spirit guides them and their faith holds them high in every situation they find themselves.
As I was talking to Mike the other night about "In the Shadow of His Wings" Mike was telling me about an article he read by Schall entitled "The Catholic Mind". Mike was explaining Schall's premise of how every situation in our life is a prototype of the Garden of Eden story. We are in the Garden with the Lord, he instructs us and tells us to keep his commandments, we have a choice to make, and the choice end up in the appropriate consequence - good or bad. That episode is done, and then it happens all over again. Over and over and over again. There are different people involved in each story, different details, different times etc - but the model is the same. Fascinating, and it really does make sense as I apply it to these two books and men of great faith.
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