The Art of Lent by Sister Wendy Beckett

Author:Sister Wendy Beckett
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780281078561
Publisher: SPCK

SATURDAY

A meaningful life

Annunciation, 1489–90, Sandro Botticelli

We long for reassurance, our own personal angelic visit, the removal of obstacles, the certainty of fulfilment. Botticelli’s Virgin sways in prayerful wonder as she receives the blessed summons. What will follow? For Mary it will be a life of loneliness and poverty, with her son dying a criminal’s death and the only solace her faith. Human strengths can only lead to human satisfactions, and even these are vulnerable to fortune. But these are meagre goals, not enough to lead us into peace. There is no lasting peace that does not rest upon a sense of life having meaning. For Mary, that meaning was her divine Son; for others, it can come from a determination to do what is right, and the solid certainty that this is something that nobody can wrest away from us.

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