10 Signs You Really Need to Chill Out With Your Lenten Fast
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These Gifs Perfectly Describe Every Confession Feel You’ve Ever Had
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1. When you realize it’s been a while since you went to confession 2. Then you start your examination of conscience and it’s not pretty 3. And you downplay how much you need confession 4. Looking through available confession times near you has got you like 5. When you walk up to
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40 Facts You Wished Everyone Knew About Lent
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It’s that time of year again when ashes in the shape of crosses are found on foreheads throughout the world to make it the official start of the liturgical season called Lent. To make this season a bit more bearable, don’t you wish everyone knew these things about Lent? 1. It’s not the fibers
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Searched #AshTag on Twitter — The Results Were Awesome
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Are you ready for #AshWednesday! Coming soon to your parish. #Ashtag #Lent pic.twitter.com/TNgxAVT1oK — Father Jim Sichko (@JimSichko) February 27, 2017 https://twitter.com/StMStB/status/836543070900486144 Don't be ashamed to wear your #Ashtag all day. #Catholic pic.twitter.com/nx0CyZ2pcV — Bishop Zubik (@BishopZubik) March 1, 2017 https://twitter.com/bookwormwife/status/837040528982175751 Start #AshWednesday with Mass and an #ashtag, and continue it
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Brutally Honest Reasons the Catholic Church is Soooo Boring…
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Catholic all your life? I’m so sorry… Just converted? Even more sorry. You probably already know… but… the Catholic Church is positively boring. Here’s some reasons why. Churches They’re just boring! Ugly… Yawn… You would think if these Catholics really loved God, they would build him some beautiful churches to worship
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If there were Catholic “Most Likely” Awards, this is who they would go to
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Do you remember your senior superlatives? Half the fun was finding out who would get voted “Best dressed” or “Most likely to skip class.” It’s fun to look back at the various “awards” and remember those heady days of high school. In that vein, I though it would be fun to look at a few
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How to Completely Fail at Being a Confirmation Sponsor
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You know those old cartoons that would show a character making a decision with a good angel one shoulder and a bad angel-devil-thing on the other? … they would fight for his attention? It was like a kid’s version of the Screwtape Letters (minus the brilliance of CS Lewis of course). I imagine that
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Hilarious Things You Will ONLY Hear In A Catholic Home
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Who knew Catholic culture could saturate so many parts of your life? The longer you are Catholic, the more you realize there are certain things you will only hear a Catholic say. And then there’s the things your friends ask you… because they are not Catholic. Here’s a list of what you’ll only hear in a Catholic home.
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Here’s 12 More Weird Patron Saints, Because… Catholicism
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Ae we started finding out in THIS previous article on saints with weird patronages, Catholics have a saint for everything! Here are a dozen more saints with strange patronages. 1. Spelunkers – St. Benedict Spelunkers climb around in caves which is why St. Benedict, who was a hermit and lived in a cave for many
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These 7 Saints Have The Weirdest Patronages We Could Find
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Something the communion of saints teaches us is that there is a place for everyone and everything in Catholicism- catholic does mean “universal”, after all. There are patron saints for absolutely every profession, predicament, situation, and ailment under the sun so that you always have someone special to turn to with your needs. Here are
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Dear Internet: Here’s What Mark Shea Wants for Christmas
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“Dear Internet, after all I’ve done for you, I will not be happy again unless I have this… My flourishing as a human will never happen until you buy me this… Is into much to ask that you supply with this…” – Mark Shea Keeping us giggling all year long, here’s a few special items
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You Won’t Believe These Nativity Sets – Part III
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It’s that time of year again! Time for the annual trek through epic and not-so-epic, hilarious and not-so-hilarious, bad and not-so-bad nativity sets! Advent and Christmas at EpicPew would not be the same without a listicle of these unique nativity sets. In case you’ve missed the past few years, here’s the links to the previous
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These Christmas Trees Are Just Ridiculous
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Christmas trees are a tradition unlike any other for the holidays. Stemming (pun intended) from an Old Germanic tradition, the tree symbolizes life in the winter darkness, just as Jesus came and still comes in the winter darkness as the Light and Life of the World. The Christmas tree is really a reminder of who
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You should NEVER visit the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Here’s Why
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Visiting the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in D.C. is a terrible idea. Let me explain… 1. It’s too small (If by “small” you mean the largest church in not only the United States, but also North America, and one of the largest in the world.) 2. There aren’t
Christmas According to Kids is AMAZING!
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Kids. Are. Awesome. Fantastic job by Southland Christian Church.
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This Lord of the Rings Christmas mashup will make you ROFL
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This is absolutely brilliant.
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Franciscan Priests in a Manequin Challenge is pure GOLD!!!
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This is totally awesome. Give up up for the Capuchin friars San Lorenzo.
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St. Paul Had Some Lesser Known Letters and they’re awesome!
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Another exciting discovery was made in the Vatican Secret Archives. As historians, biblical scholars, and manuscript specialists were cleaning out a broom closet near the stacks, one of the staff knocked over a broomstick setting off a chain reaction that culminated in quite a few items being thrown off a nearby shelf. The particular shelf
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Watch the Bishop of Rockford and his priests rocking out in carpool karaoke
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Watch out, James Corden! Fathers Keith Romke and Kyle Manno, along with Bishop David Malloy of the Diocese of Rockford, Illinois, had a bit of fun on their way to a recent youth summit. They took the drive as an opportunity to parody the most popular sketch of “The Late Late Show” on CBS, following
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Gifs that PERFECTLY Summarize Every Book of the Old Testament
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The Old Testament is famously hard to get through, even for scholars. All those laws, genealogies, census’, and some prophet or another flailing and yelling about fire and brimstone–it’s all very important to our faith, but fallen human nature being what it is, our attention lags when there aren’t lasers or explosions or inter-dimensional space
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