"Perhaps this is the truest view of such exercises, that in some wonderful, unknown way they open the next world for good and evil upon us..."

Newman originally gave this sermon for the first Sunday of Lent, reflecting upon Christ's fasting and temptation in the desert.

Full text: http://www.newmanreader.org/works/parochial/volume6/sermon1.html

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