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The Importance of Penance and What It Is
Mary M. Dillon - Feb 20, 2018
Throughout the history of the Church, Lent has been associated with the practice of penance through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, but why are we required to do these things? -
Make This Lent Your Best Ever
Jeannie Ewing - Feb 15, 2018
Resist temptation. Repent. Come back. Detach. These, and many other, words we often hear during the Lenten season are difficult for us. As we begin our journey, we focus on Lent’s true message: reconciliation by way of God’s mercy. -
These are the Most Interesting Mardi Gras Celebrations
Veronica Dillon - Feb 13, 2018
Lent is not eternal—the joy of today's celebration will again be a part of our daily lives, because of Christ's sacrifice. There are many Mardi Gras traditions around the world, but lots of fun and food are universal requirements! -
This Is the Best Way to Live Lent with Your Family
Jeannie Ewing - Feb 8, 2018
Lent always comes when I least expect it—when I am most unprepared to welcome the penances necessary to the season. Here are some practical tips to help you tackle the challenge of spiritually preparing as a family unit. -
Get Ready for Good Friday With These Reflections
John Kubasak - Apr 13, 2017
On Holy Thursday, Christ established the sacrament through which we experience His lasting presence on earth. The Eucharist encompasses the full revelation of Jesus Christ. The Word is made flesh and dwells among us every Sunday in every Catholic Church, recalling the Incarnation and the Prologue of St. John’s Gospel. The sacrifice of Jesus on Calvary is anticipated at the Last Supper ("this is My Body, which will be given up for you") and that sacrifice is mystically made... -
Here Are the 11 Most Beautiful Images of Christ’s Passion
Catherine Birri - Apr 11, 2017
If you feel like you haven't spent enough time contemplating the Lenten or Sorrowful mysteries this year (or even if you have), now is the perfect time to spend a few minutes gazing on these paintings of our Lord's Passion. These images were so beautifully created, their mastery of art and depth of expression can move us to greater understanding and insight, intense spiritual reflection, or even tears. Each is a meditation unto itself. Use them as a starting point for your Holy Week... -
Have the Most Meaningful Holy Week With These Reflections
Jeannie Ewing - Apr 6, 2017
Holy Week has nearly arrived. For many of us, this comes as a welcome relief. Sacrifice, mortification, and suffering do not come easily. We’d rather carry on in our comfortable lives than stretch ourselves until it hurts for love of Him who was stretched on a Cross for us. As we prepare our souls to accept and surrender to the weight of His love before entering into the lighthearted celebration of the Easter season, it behooves us to pause each day with some degree of solemn appreciation... -
How to Have the Greatest Lent of Your Life: Week 5
Gillian Weyant - Mar 30, 2017
The liturgical season of Lent gives all of us an opportunity to consider the deeper truths of our faith. Lent is a retreat into silence, into contemplation; it is a season of work and retreat for hearts needing to make space for God. Its quiet hush can be of great help in our lives as Catholics, especially as we may become otherwise easily distracted by the disquieted and busy nature of our world. During this fifth week of Lent, let us consider the love and mercy shown to us by our God in many... -
How to Have the Greatest Lent of Your Life: Week 4
W. P. Bennett - Mar 23, 2017
The fourth Sunday of Lent this year provides us with one of the key prophetic passages from the Old Testament about the person of Jesus Christ. This prophetic foreshadowing reveals a lot about who a priest is supposed to be. -
How to Have the Greatest Lent of Your Life: Week 3
John Kubasak - Mar 16, 2017
Lent is the perfect opportunity cultivate roots like the tree planted next to the stream: dig deep into grace. Immerse yourself in the sacraments, especially the Eucharist and confession. Make your prayers more frequent, and deepen them with fasting. Practice the works of mercy, carrying your sacramental life and prayer life into action. Those roots will help bear fruit when draughts come! -
Here’s A Beautiful Lenten Gospel Reflection Just for You
Charles Kaupke - Mar 9, 2017
The Gospel Reading for the Second Sunday of Lent recalls the Transfiguration of Our Lord at the top of a mountain. In this famous scene, Our Lord takes Peter, James and John up a high mountain and, once there, He is transfigured before them. In this post we will look at three details of the Transfiguration, as presented in the Gospel of Matthew, and see how they can enhance our Lenten journey. -
What Should You Really Know About Sundays in Lent?
Vincent Terreri - Mar 7, 2017
There is some debate among Catholics of the Roman Rite, at least, regarding whether or not we should carry out our Lenten penance on the Sundays of Lent. Partisans coming down on either side of the question seem to have strong arguments. Here is a review of the ancient tradition of the Church, both East and West, will reveal a resolution, or at least raise some questions that will guide us in making our decisions about how we should live out our Lenten season. -
Have a Meaningful Lent with these Practical Tips
Sara and Justin Kraft - Mar 2, 2017
Ash Wednesday commences the holy season of Lent in the church. Lent is a 40 day period in which we the faithful prepare for Easter and during which the “…Church unites herself each year to the mystery of Jesus in the desert.” (CCC 540) During this time, Catholics are specifically asked to practice three spiritual activities: prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. -
How to Have the Greatest Lent of Your Life: Week 1
Jeannie Ewing - Feb 28, 2017
Lent. Most of us dread it. Many of us enter into the liturgical season with some apprehension and discouragement because of the focus on penance, fasting, ashes, sacrifices, and mortification. It seems as if the road to self-denial will never end: 6 weeks of suffering, of self-abnegation? The Resurrection – our resurrection – seems to be so far in the distance that we often lose sight of why we enter into the desert with Jesus. It seems too long... -
How is the Beauty of Holy Week Celebrated Across the World?
Sara and Justin Kraft - Mar 23, 2016
While Holy Week is devoutly and spiritually observed all around the world, there are some places where it is a time of elaborate ritual, participated in by entire cultures and cities. Sacred traditions that date back centuries become the center of public life for a resplendent seven days. Read on to learn about all-night processions, living Stations of the Cross in which the Pope portrays Christ, floats weighing several thousand pounds, and the making of intricate and colorful sawdust carpets to...
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I Was A Pilgrim In History
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An Introduction to the Life and Writings of Cora Evans
An Introduction to the Life and Writings of Cora Evans: Wife, Mother, and Mystic is a personal journal written by one of her best friend, Christian Brother, Edward Behan. Behan shares his knowledge of Cora's life and writings, of her thoughts and insights, which unfolded over six years of inspiring friendship. This book sheds much light on Cora and her relationship with our Lord.
The Refugee from Heaven
The Refugee from Heaven recounts the life of Jesus Christ as an eyewitness, beginning with the first meeting between Jesus and Peter, on the shores of Mount Carmel Bay. With vivid detail and dialogue, this unique account breathes new life into well-known figures of the Gospels.
A Time to Laugh and a Time to Weep
NOW AVAILABLE! A Time to Laugh and A Time to Weep is a prayerful journey for healing, forgiveness, charity, kindness, and courage that traverses the highs and lows of motherhood and faith in light of Cora Evans’ writings. Travel alongside Cora Evans and Jeannie Ewing — one a woman of the early twentieth century, another a modern Catholic living in the frenzied, post-modern Information Age — and realize that truth, beauty, and wisdom exist outside of time.
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