Now we have the sacred season of Lent, a time of spiritual exercises, as we once held with various congregations. … Here too we have Lenten talks and Lenten services. The best service, however, is always life itself, life accepted joyfully and peacefully with all it brings, affirming our “Thy will be done!” And it certainly is not a thing for the weak, as it requires great strength to see through the hazy February day the rays of eternal Easter, but it is intoxicatingly beautiful...
(Adolf Kajpr SJ /1902–1959/, letter to a fellow brother; Dachau, February 25, 1945)
