Monty Williams, SJ, works in the Spiritual Exercises ministry, is a lecturer at Regis College, Toronto, and is on staff at the Jesuit Communication Project, Toronto.
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We all live in imagined worlds and we live in those worlds as if they were real. This is not to say that there is no such thing as reality but it is to say that how we appropriate and construct that reality is through the imagination and that imagination incarnates itself through stories....
There is a long tradition going back to the early Church of a time of fasting, penance, and asceticism before the liturgical memorials of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of the Christ. Today one hears of people giving up things: chocolate, alcohol, foods of certain sorts, or taking up things: a daily rosary, or the reading of a devotional book, or the practice of a pious exercise....
