Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cunningham, Lawrence S

Titel

Dry season

Ist Teil von

• Commonweal, 2012-02, Vol.139 (4), p.39

Ort / Verlag

New York: Commonweal Foundation

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Literature Online (LION eBooks)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Bible tells us two things about the desert: that it is dangerous (Mark's Gospel says Jesus was surrounded by wild animals) and that it's a place where we can hear the voice of God. In the midst of his own desert experience, a period of spiritual dryness and desolation, the Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins cries out to God, "send my roots rain." Lent ought to clear the distractions that keep us from seeing the inhabitants of the real deserts of our day, and it ought to be a time for ascetic practices that do more than deprive us of pleasure.