Catharsis on the Fly

Listening to the Lenten liturgy, one can hear the 11th century pasted awkwardly over the early liturgies to forge an inherent contradiction: “Repent” means turn around and look at God, not pick narcissistically at your scabs. Only the face of God can heal us, and if it were our “default”, the transfiguration of ourselves and oneanother would happen without any “programme” or imposed exercises.

–from the blog of Anglican solitary Maggie Ross

Put like that, repentance sounds… very Zen.