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Podcast: Fr Luigi Gioia: Lent as the time of healing

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11 March 2022

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On the podcast this week, Fr Luigi Gioia reflects on the theme of “Lent as the time of healing.”

His talk was given at an online Lent Retreat last Saturday, hosted by the Church Times and the Church House Bookshop. Buy a recording of the entire event here.

Fr Gioia is a freelance writer and speaker in theology and spirituality and Associate Priest of St Paul’s, Knightsbridge, in London. His books include The Wisdom of St Benedict: Monastic spirituality and the life of the Church (Canterbury Press) (Features, 12 February 2021), Touched by God (Bloomsbury) (Books, 1 February 2019), and Say it to God (Bloomsbury), which was the Archbishop of Canterbury’s 2018 Lent Book.

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