Lent is a time of return, that which was lost is found again and a new beginning is sought. Lost sheep are brought back to the fold.
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Non Solum: Penance Services
During Advent and Lent it is the custom in many communities to offer penance services. Penance services are especially appropriate during Advent and Lent due to the penitential nature of both seasons.
Read moreConference on Women and Diaconal Ministry
This conference is poised to unveil unknown aspects of the history of women in ministry that could inform contemporary pastoral ministry.
Read morePenance and the New Evangelization
How is the Word proclaimed in the Sacrament of Reconciliation?
Read more“A Spirit of Compunction”?
by Andrew Cameron-Mowat, SJ.
“The Prayer over the People from which this phrase comes was heard for the first time at the end of Mass on Ash Wednesday this February. The prayer illustrates two of the issues that have emerged from the use of the new translation of the Missal…”
Catholic teens and sacramental reconciliation in U.S. Catholic
Robert Nugent argues that for teens to appreciate the value of sacramental confession, we need to clearly ritualize its connection to the larger community and engage their sense of sin as injuring relationships, rather that disobeying individual (often half-understood) laws.
Read moreAmerican Seminarians Pack Stational Liturgy in Rome
“I said ‘Bravo, let’s put this on steroids. Let’s make this part of our college Lenten spiritual regimen,'” [Archbishop Timothy] Dolan said Thursday from New York. “It’s an act of penance. Is there anything colder, damper than taking off on a dark Roman morning … to walk a half hour to a church? That’s what Lent is all about.”
Read morePrayers of Confession
“If the ‘Confession: A Roman Catholic App’ makes that connection between heart, mind and voice that call us to an even deeper confession of Christ, then would the creators make an app for us Protestant worshipers as well?”
Read moreNew App for Confession- updated 2/9
Will new media affect the way Catholics celebrate the Sacrament of Penance?
Read moreSome musing on our divisions
Did you know there are polarizations in the Catholic Church today? I try to be optimistic, and my Christian faith requires me to be hopeful. But I see troubling signs that the divisions are deepening.
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