The Two Wings

While we cannot achieve salvation on our own merits, there are things we can do to prepare ourselves to receive God’s grace, which is his activity within us, and this is how we are called to live our Lenten Season. Such gifts of grace are described by Dante Alighieri in his Divine Comedy, the centerpiece of which is Mount Purgatory, the ladder that enables our return to God. The seven stories of the mountain deal with pride, envy, wrath, sloth, avarice, gluttony and lust in light of their corresponding virtues of, respectively, humility, caritas, meekness, zeal, liberality, abstinence and chastity. This presentation will lead participants through a discussion of the Purgatorio and engage them in a spiritual exercise dealing with these seven virtues. (Scheduled to be Recorded and Aired on Thursday, March 15, 2018, at 4:00 pm Eastern / 3:00 pm Central)Dr. Mahfood earned his PhD in Literature at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, MO, and has written and taught on Dante's Divine Comedy for over twenty years an