What does it mean to be in the world and not of it? This is an essential question for Lent. The Christian Humanism promoted by the Church since the Second Vatican Council has perhaps had an important role in correcting a Jansenist view of human nature and affirming that this nature retains dignity and beauty even after the Fall. But it all too easily becomes a pagan “Nothing human is alien to me” unless the measure of “human” is the Incarnate Christ, not the self-referential ideal human of the Enlightenment.