The Little Way of Lent: Meditations in the Spirit of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

"Lent is not meant to foster morbid gloominess and debilitating self-loathing, but to thrust us into the heart of Divine love." —From the Introduction. While reading the autobiography of St. Thérèse, Fr. Caster had an 'ah ha' moment that transformed his experience of Lent from one of narrow concern over what to give up to one of joyful freedom to enter into the sacrificial love of Jesus Christ. "What struck me," he says, "was her insistence on the way we do things for God and not the things...