TS Eliot's "Ash Wednesday"- an annotated version

     Tomorrow marks the start of Lent for Western Christians. Regardless of one's spirituality, or lack thereof, I think that everyone would agree that it is good to take some time to pause and reflect on the type of people we are and how we are not all that we would like to be. As Martin Luther said, whatever we strive for can become our god, so there are no atheists. In my Army chaplain days every so often someone wold announce his or her atheist status, to which I would calmly ask if the soldier was a devout atheist.

     The Eliot poem reflects his own journey to Anglo-Catholicism.

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