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by bcadmin | Apr 21, 2022 | Easter, Jesus Christ, Lent, News, repentance, Resurrection, St. Gregory of Narek, The Dispatch | 0 |
Lent has a clear focus—doing penance to prepare for the Resurrection—although it can be harder to focus on spiritual growth during the Easter season. It is a time of fruitfulness, although the experience of the […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 20, 2022 | Baptism, Easter, Jesus Christ, Lent, Mass, News, Passover, Spirituality, spring cleaning, The Dispatch | 0 |
Where does the term “spring cleaning” come from? If you grew up reading Laura Ingalls Wilder, you might know that our pioneer ancestors spent days every spring beating soot and dust out of their carpets […]
Read More“Michael,” I shouted, “your time’s up! Come out of there!” My frustration was building as I stood in front of the inflated carnival castle filled with small children jumping and bouncing to their hearts’ delight. My 3-year-old son, Michael, had been in…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 15, 2022 | Good Friday, Lent, News, Paul McKibben, Pope John Paul I, Veneration of the Cross | 0 |
It’s an image and moment of Good Friday I’ll never forget. More poignantly, it’s the sound that still resonates in my mind and heart more than a decade later. I took an extended break — longer than I probably should have — that particular Good Friday f…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 13, 2022 | Easter joy, Lent, Maria Wiering, News, Practicing Catholic | 0 |
Lent certainly has a penitential aspect to it, but it also is a great period of preparation, said Archbishop Bernard Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 13, 2022 | Exodus, Jesus' death, Jesus' passion, Jesus' resurrection, Lent, Moses, News, Simcha Fisher | 0 |
Around this time of year, I love to remind everybody of the stunning metaphysical similarities between the Exodus narrative and the passion, death, and Resurrection of Christ. Tell the truth: you groaned a little when you read that. It is one more thin…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 10, 2022 | Holy Week, lead, Lent, News, Palm Sunday, Pope Francis, Russia, Sunday Angelus, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican, War | 0 |
As the Church begins Holy Week, the days before Easter commemorating Jesus’s crucifixion and death, Pope Francis Sunday appealed for an immediate ceasefire to the war in Ukraine, saying Easter is time to choose life over death.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 10, 2022 | Coronavirus, COVID-19, Holy Week, lead, Lent, News, Palm Sunday, Pope Francis, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican | 0 |
In his first outdoor Mass in over two years, Pope Francis on Palm Sunday refrained from directly mentioning the conflict in Ukraine but said Jesus’s violent death on the cross is relived in each act of war and in the killing of innocents.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 10, 2022 | Commentary, Faith, lead, Lent, News, On Spirituality, Palm Sunday | 0 |
The Lord’s humility allowed him and his mission to be untouched by the acceptance, or rejection, by the crowd. He stood before God the Father. He knew who he was and he knew what needed to be accomplished.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 9, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Lent, News, St. Peter's Basilica, Stations of the Cross, Vatican, Vatican museums | 0 |
Italian painter Gaetano Previati in 1902 completed a series of large oil paintings of Jesus’ passion, death and burial.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 9, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, diocese of Nashville, Knights of Columbus, Lent, News | 0 |
The supply chain issues and rising prices that have snarled businesses across the country also have had an impact on the ever-popular Lenten fish fries in the Diocese of Nashville.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 8, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Father Raniero Cantalamessa, Lent, News, Preacher of the Papal Household, Vatican | 0 |
At the Last Supper, Jesus instituted the Eucharist and commanded his disciples to serve others, said the preacher of the papal household.
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