We have now embarked upon pre-Lent

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Gueranger:

It is evident that the Christian, who would spend Septuagesima according to the spirit of the Church, must make war upon that false security, that self-satisfaction, which are so common to effeminate and tepid souls, and produce spiritual barrenness.

Met. Antony Bloom:

“God can save the sinner you are, but not the saint you pretend to be.”