Redeeming The Time

Lent is a school to teach us to pursue happiness, not pleasure. Comments on a hymn from Vespers, Tuesday, week 3 of Great Lent explaining the difference between pleasure and happiness: "I have been wounded by the sword of pleasure, O Lord, / and a shameful death has befallen me. / O Master, pierced by a spear, / who as Savior bringest healing to those wounded by the arrows of the enemy, / heal and restore to life my humble soul, / and grant me to share in Thy Holy Passion."