Fifth Sunday in Lent Reflection
What’s in a Name? We all know the experience, hearing our name across a crowded noisy room. In the study of cognitive psychology this is known as the ‘cocktail party effect’. Someone mentions our...
Category: Lent
How to Make ‘Sacrifices of Love’
Someone said to me the other day that your Lenten sacrifice should be your secret with God. That sounds fine, to a point. I also know that in my family over very many years,...
Pope: Convert Now, Don’t be Spiritually Lazy
By Cindy Wooden – God is patient and merciful, but people should not put off their conversion because they never know how long they will live, Pope Francis said. “We can have great trust in...
Pope: Imitate God by Being Merciful to Others
By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service – The season of Lent is a time for Christians to reflect on and practice the mercy of God toward others and not waste away sitting in judgment...
For Lent, Catholics Urged to Abandon ‘Weapons of Mass Distraction’
By Nick Bramhill Catholic News Service – Alcohol, smoking and chocolates are some of the most well-known vices that people traditionally give up during Lent. But now Massgoers in Ireland are being urged to make...
2nd Sunday in Lent Reflection
There is a pattern that we find in the life of Jesus that unfolds on the high places, those places where God was sought and the places of encounter. These high places are however...
Faith and flowers: Special Rules keep God’s House Simply Beautiful
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service – Of the many traditions and penitential practices observed during the season of Lent, one of the more visible is the stark change in church decor and a complete...
Improve Yourself this Lent!
By asking us to focus on God, Lent presents us with an opportunity to improve ourselves. FR RALPH DE HAHN tells how. There may be times when we are confused about the resolutions we...
Practice of Memento Mori – Considering One’s Death – Revived for Lent
We have one life. What are we doing with it? Are we remembering our death? To some it sounds strange, but that’s what a Daughter of St. Paul is doing through her revival of...
Mass Readings: 10 March – 17 March, 2019
Liturgical Calendar Year C Weekday Cycle 1 Sunday, March 10, 1st Sunday of Lent Deuteronomy 26:4-10, Psalm 91:1-2, 10-15, Romans 10:8-13, Luke 4:1-13 Monday, March 11 Leviticus 19:1-2, 11-18, Psalm 19:8-10, 15, Matthew 25:31-46...
The Radical Call of Lent
Imagine you’re sitting in front of your doctor, and he says that your health definitely needs to improve. He then looks you square in the eyes and says, “If you wish to live a...
Pope: Give up Gossiping for Lent!
Lent is a good time to concentrate on fighting the urge to gossip about others and instead trying to correct one’s own faults and defects, Pope Francis said. Reciting the Angelus prayer at...
