As you prepare for Lent, meditate upon (and share with a friend) these words from C.S. Lewis' Miserable Offenders: An Interpretation of Prayer Book Language: The Lenten season is devoted especially to what the theologians call contrition, and so every day in Lent a prayer is said in which we ask God to give us "contrite hearts."1 Contrite, as you know, is a word translated from Latin, meaning crushed or pulverized. Now modern people complain that there is too much of that note in our Prayer Book. They do not … [Read more...] about Lenten Preparations: A Time of Contrition