Tag: fasting

We’ve washed the ashes from our foreheads.  The fun part is over, and it’s a long ways off until Easter.  Faced with a Lenten season, and a Lenten promise, it’s easy to

The penitential season of Lent is here, and it helps to review the whys of fasting, prayer, and almsgiving before settling on what to do.

Use Father Michael Gaitley’s practical guide to the works of mercy to find happiness.

Just as we begin the season of Lent, which is a call to fast, give alms and pray … the Church presents us with the story of Jesus being tempted not to

Catholics have a bad reputation. The world thinks of us as largely irrelevant and mostly negative. Society has become so extreme in its embrace of various forms of immorality, we are largely