Lent in the Age of the Smartphone
An important reflection by my friend Marc Barnes:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/badcatholic/2016/02/lent-in-the-age-of-the-smartphone.html
‘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?”’
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