How about a Mystic for President?

We’re too distracted to know what’s most important. Ash Wednesday can help.

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A man prays during Ash Wedneday services at St. Andrew’s in New York City, 2014.

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‘Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.”

That’s a semi-famous quote from Charles Péguy, a French poet, who was born 150 years ago this month. Reflecting on his thinking, Robert Royal recently explained on his website The Catholic Thing: “What he meant is that every powerful movement begins as a spiritual force, and then is ‘incarnated’ in concrete action.”

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.

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