Lent is very trendy among young Catholics.
We thought this practice of forty-day deprivation, between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday, was over, but here it is regaining vigor in this generation, although nourished by the cornucopia of material goods and the endless ease of digital applications.
Some of these “digital natives” choose to abandon electronic icons, turn off screens and put away AirPods.
They call this temporary asceticism a “Lenten effort”, a period when they want to turn to prayer, to listen to another way, that of God, of others, of the homeless or isolated elderly people.
Others, yesterday disciples of idleness and carelessness, today seize the bull by the horns by engaging their day as a demanding battle against themselves: cold shower, sports session, moderation in the pleasures of the mouth and of the body, silent prayer.
Could this be the ultimate…
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