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By Dr. R. Jared Staudt, Catholic World Report, March 14, 2024

R. Jared Staudt PhD, serves as Director of Content for Exodus 90 and as an instructor for the lay division of St. John Vianney Seminary. …

Brant Pitre’s Introduction to the Spiritual Life offers insights on how Jesus himself lays the foundation for our ascetical practices.

During Lent, we focus on prayer, fasting and almsgiving in order to repent and turn our lives back to God. The 40 days of this holy season invite us to unite ourselves to Jesus’s own prayer and fasting in the desert, where he battles the enemy in overcoming fundamental temptations of life: lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and pride of life. Only through Jesus’s own fidelity to the Father can we, too, overcome these fundamental threats to our souls.

As we focus on these central Lenten themes, Brant Pitre’s book Introduction to the Spiritual Life: Walking the Path of Prayer with Jesus offers insights on how Jesus himself lays the foundation for our ascetical practices. In each chapter, he demonstrates how Jesus built upon and perfected the teaching of the Old Testament and laid the foundation for the life of the Church. …

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