Shrove Tuesday - Vigil of The Holy Season of Lent.

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The Holy Season of Lent.
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With Christ in the desert of prayer and fasting.
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Dixit Jesus discipulis suis:
Cum ieiunatis,
nolite fieri sicut hypocritae, tristes.
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Jesus said to His disciples:
When you fast,
do not look gloomy like the hypocrites.

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This painting
by William Dyce in 1860
depicts Our Lord
in the wilderness of the Scottish Highlands
of our holy diocese of Aberdeen;
where Dyce was born.