PRESENTS
SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT
A SUNDAY AFTERNOON NEWSLETTER
“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.” —H. W. Longfellow
First Things authors reflect on the Lenten season, its principal obligation, and its potential to foster personal conversion.
MARCH 2005 ● BY EAMON DUFFY
TO FAST AGAIN
Abandoning compulsory abstinence was a mistake.
MAY 2022 ● BY PATRICIA SNOW
ON THE THRESHOLD: PART III
From the lectern, Isaiah upbraided me—“Do you call this a fast, / A day acceptable to the Lord?”
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