Coronavirus: An Opportunity to Secularize Lent
Xavier Casanovas. For some time now I have been trying to give a rationale for the need to secularize Lent. For reasons that are self-evident, our Western societies have been taking each of the religious celebrations and adapting them to the secular calendar. Christmas has become the adoration of the god of consumption. Easter is a surrender to the sin of gluttony. The great feast days, historically consecrated to the pious devotion to the patron saints of individual towns, have been converted into endless revelry. And in some cases we can still say that the true meaning has not been completely lost. (more…)
