Do Sailors Have Naval Lent?

From Pope Benedict XVI on Lent:

Lent is a privileged time of interior pilgrimage towards Him Who is the fount of mercy. It is a pilgrimage in which He Himself accompanies us through the desert of our poverty, sustaining us on our way towards the intense joy of Easter. Even in the “valley of darkness” of which the Psalmist speaks (Ps 23:4), while the tempter prompts us to despair or to place a vain hope in the work of our own hands, God is there to guard us and sustain us.

A much more beautiful explanation that the one I attempted in my previous post.

In fact, it is quite impossible to separate the response to people’s material and social needs from the fulfilment of the profound desires of their hearts.

Take that, Liberation theologians. And this:

. . .the primary contribution that the Church offers to the development of mankind and peoples does not consist merely in material means or technical solutions. Rather, it involves the proclamation of the truth of Christ. . .