Pope’s Message for Lent
By Carol Glatz, CNS – Lent is a time to free oneself from slavery and take action to free others...
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A Time to Reflect on Ash
Lent, the season of repentance is the time to reflect seriously on the words used when the ashes stain our foreheads, namely, that we come from the dust of the earth and will go back there
Is Purgatory Real?
Question: What exactly is purgatory? Has the teaching of it fallen out of favour? And if purgatory exists, what happens...
In Memory of Archbishop Dennis Hurley
Farouk Araie reflects on 20 years since the death of Archbishop Denis Hurley Twenty years ago today, the beloved Archbishop...
This Ash Wednesday, Let Love Reign
An Ash Wednesday reflection by Günther Simmermacher By a quirk of the calendar, this year Ash Wednesday coincides with Valentine’s...
Prayer-Fasting-Almsgiving-Love: Ash Wednesday
Sermon by Emmanuel Suntheni OSB – Ash Wednesday Sermon and Christian Act in The Word Theme: “You are dust and to...
Fr John Allen Green OFM: A Personal Ash Wednesday & Lenten reflection
Franciscan Reflections From The Hermitage – Mystical Union within the Song of Genesis – An Ash Wednesday & Lenten reflection At that...
5 Ways to Balance Out Ash Wednesday/Valentine’s Day
The last time Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day fell together on the same day was in 2018 and before that...
The Fast that Pleases God
Are you wondering what to fast from this Lent – sweets? alcohol, or just simply eating less? This kind of...
