Tag: Lent

Just as Lent is getting off the ground, today’s Gospel (the Second Sunday of Lent, Year C) gives us the story of the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor. While we commemorate the 40

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

I was lecturing rhapsodically about beauty’s power to pierce the defensive shell of today’s world last week when I noticed that my students were having none of it. I stopped and said,

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

We are fast approaching Ash Wednesday, and it is time to start planning your Lenten fast. Lent is about recommitting to prayer, fasting so as to make room for God and almsgiving

Reprinted with the permission of the National Catholic Register. Friday starts to work on you when you are a child. You wake up, and it’s Friday. You don’t understand why adults say,

“Behold, a faithful and prudent steward, whom the Lord set over his household.” – Entrance Antiphon, Joseph, Spouse of Mary, March 19 Dear Benedict, Emeritus Pontiff; There is so much to thank