Here’s a book for Lent. And the authors are inviting people to share their Lenten stories at their website.
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Who can repent on Ash Wednesday?
“The Church does not recognize the child’s ability deliberately to commit sin that is in need of repentance until the age of ‘reason’ (age 7).”
Read moreHymn of the Day for Lent 1B
For some time now, I have been working on a project of creating a hymn text reflecting the readings assigned for each Sunday and Solemnity in the Roman Catholic 3-year Sunday lectionary.
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 moreTelevision, Time Use, Lent, and the Divine Office
From 1965 to 1995 both paid and unpaid work declined, thereby increasing leisure time, especially television viewing.
Read more“Behold the wood of the cross, on which is hung our salvation…”
The cross is the sign of our salvation, a symbol of suffering, sacrifice and compassion, and an emblem of paradox and glory.
Read moreWhat will Lent sound like next year?
Fr. Pádraig McCarthy has prepared a page with the current and the new translation of the four regular Prefaces for Lent, and the Preface for the First Sunday of Lent, side by side for purposes of comparison.
Read moreAsh Wednesday in Two Minutes
Repentance. Renewal. Community.
Praying. Fasting. Giving.
Almost seems too easy, no?
The Point of Fasting
Perhaps I am simply an incurable hedonist, but thinking of the Lenten fast as an occasion for moral and spiritual improvement strikes me as profoundly wrong.
Read moreBeer blogger tests monk tale
An Adams County blogger is planning to abstain from solid food for 46 days as he investigates an old tale about doppelbock beer, aka “liquid bread,” first developed for the Christian season of Lent more than 300 years ago by monks in Munich, Germany.
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