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# Lent in the Age of the Smartphone
- URL: https://joshualore.com/inthemiddleway/lent-in-the-age-of-the-smartphone/
- Published: 2016-02-15T20:58:36.000Z
- Updated: 2016-02-15T20:58:36.000Z
- Author: Joshua Lore
- Tags: Uncategorized, #Migrated-1788408094757, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-09-03 00:01

An important reflection by my friend Marc Barnes:

[http://www.patheos.com/blogs/badcatholic/2016/02/lent-in-the-age-of-the-smartphone.html](http://www.patheos.com/blogs/badcatholic/2016/02/lent-in-the-age-of-the-smartphone.html?ref=joshualore.com)

‘Acts of patience form a habit of patience. Our bullying at work forms the “innermost man” and makes us a bully everywhere else. Our fidelity in marriage builds a disposition of faithfulness that we carry into every other relationship. “Everything is connected,” as Pope Francis is so fond of saying: Every act builds up a habit in the total human person. The act of operating smart-devices is no exception. If this is true — that there is no use that does not form the user — then this is the question we should pose to Siri: “What habit, what disposition of the soul, and what mode of being are you building within me?”’

[Lent in the Age of the Smartphone](http://www.patheos.com/blogs/badcatholic/2016/02/lent-in-the-age-of-the-smartphone.html?ref=joshualore.com)