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You're Doing Lent Wrong: Scripture to Recenter Lent

St. Anthony's Tongue

Every year, Catholics prepare for Lent by adding more: more devotions, more fasting plans, more spiritual intensity. But Scripture suggests something deeper. In this episode, we explore five key biblical passages that reveal the true posture of the desert. Lent is not about religious performance or self-improvement. It is about interior conversion, surrender, and allowing God to strip away what keeps us from Him.From Joel’s call to “rend your heart,” to Hosea’s wilderness of divine courtship, to Mary and Martha, Psalm 51, and Christ entering the desert as the Beloved—this is Scripture to recenter your Lent.