When it is Fat Tuesday and you realize you haven’t given any thought to what you are giving up for Lent When you see someone attractive with ashes on their forehead on Ash Wednesday When you accidentally touch your forehead on Ash Wednesday When you see food...
Lent begins in ashes and ends in the Resurrection Lent is a call. It is a calling to every man, woman and child who would bear the name Christian. Lent is the time of year where, as a church, we put lip service aside, humble ourselves and submit to the disciplines of...
Lent has officially begun. For the next 40 days (give or take a few, depending on when you’re reading this), it’s all about fasting, almsgiving, prayer, and making room in your heart for God. It is a penitential season in which we look at our lives and see where God...
1. New Orleans didn’t invent Mardi Gras New Orleans can thank their celebration of Mardi Gras to the Europeans who brought their religious practices with them to the colonies. This specific holiday was celebrated with as much vigor as it would have been in...
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less.” — C.S. Lewis Humility: the hallmark of the saints Humility is that ever elusive hallmark of the saints. Associated with the virtue of temperance, it is the virtue that as soon as...
