3 Quick and Practical Steps You Can Take to Grow Closer to The Lord This Lent
Want to make Lent simple but effective? Try these suggestions.
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Want to make Lent simple but effective? Try these suggestions.
3 Quick and Practical Steps You Can Take to Grow Closer to The Lord This Lent Read More »
Lent is just a few weeks away—now is the time to prepare
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Now is the perfect time to start your prep work if you want to have an excellent Lenten experience.
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Built by Lasse Vestergard, 20 scenes from the life of Jesus, completely made of LEGOS!
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The Paschal Vigil is the first official celebration of the Resurrection of Christ in the Catholic Church. It’s also the first time when Catholics can exclaim “Alleluia” since the beginning of Lent. But do you know these less common facts about the eve of Easter? 1. On this day, the Church symbolizes the tomb “On
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Throughout the universal Catholic Church, the yearly liturgy known as the Chrism Mass has been taking place.
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Do you find yourself feeling too overwhelmed or too busy at the end of Lent?
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I was able to make a trip to Israel at the beginning of the year. Now, I recommend that everyone put the Holy Land on their travel bucket list. But sometimes getting to the place where Christ lived and died is impossible. Maybe you don’t have the vacation time or the funds to travel. Your health
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The tradition found its most recent surge of popularity in the 16th century when St. Philip Neri frequently traversed the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome.
What if we told you that there were many ways to be able to do the Stations of the Cross, even if you think you have no time for it?
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Lent doesn’t have to be completely void of beautiful music.
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April 1- St. Hugh of Grenoble He was made bishop of Grenoble, France in 1080 and tried to majorly reform his diocese. However, discouraged, he retired to an abbey and became a Benedictine. April 2- St. Mary of Egypt A woman who lived for 47 years as a hermitess in the Jordanian desert. She had no contact with anyone until a holy
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How’s your Lent going so far? Are you hitting a slump, struggling with your sacrifice, and longing for the celebration of Easter? Venerable Fulton Sheen has got your back. For the first time ever, Fulton Sheen’s completed writings and reflections on Christ’s last words have been compiled into one book. Sheen shows how the words
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You don’t have to wait until Holy Week to start meditating on the passion and death of Jesus. In fact, the more you prayerfully reflect on Christ’s sacrifice now, the more fully you’ll be able to enter into Passiontide. If you’re wondering where to begin when it comes to praying and meditating on the death
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It’s not easy letting things go when your pride and ego have been wounded. I don’t know a single person who doesn’t automatically react in a negative way, at least not initially. There are some people who try to cultivate humility by letting things go, whether they were at fault for not. In fact, Benedictine
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Even though Lent is just beginning, you should start thinking about Holy Thursday right now. Hidden in the upper room with his closest apostles, Jesus gave the entire world such a wonderful and mysterious gift all in one night. We all know the story that is written, and the sacrifice that he gave us upon
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“Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” If you attended Mass on Ash Wednesday, you heard those words. If you’re anything like me, you walked back to the pew and wondered what those ashes on your forehead looked like. Did you have a cross or simply an ashy blob because your priest
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Talking about Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory during Lent seems cruel, especially if you gave up sweets. But the lessons that Willy and Charlie teach us go far beyond food. This penitential season is the perfect time to revisit the classic tale, or introduce your kids to the story for the first time. This
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Lent is right around the corner. Want to give up something more than soda or sugar this year? Knowing your temperament can help you sacrifice something meaningful! You may know your temperament (if you don’t, take this quiz), defined by Hippocrates hundreds of years before the birth of Christ. Melancholic, choleric, sanguine, or phlegmatic, your
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Lent is right around the corner. How are you making this year’s penitential season special? Every year, my family comes up with same boring things to give up for Lent. We classically give up biting nails, fighting with family members, or chewing gum. Some of us even go to the extreme of giving up coffee.
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