Deserts are places of no distractions,
when we get down to spiritual basics
with nothing to divert us from the great questions.
--Bishop Robert Barron
The Gospels invite us to make friends with the desert, the cross, with ashes, with self-renunciation, with humiliation, with our shadow, and with death itself. We grow by letting the desert work us over, by renouncing cherished dreams to accept the cross, by letting the humiliations that befall us deepen our character, by having the courage to face our own deep chaos, and by making peace with our own mortality.
--Fr. Ron Rolheiser, OMI
Facebook, November 5, 2025
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