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by bcadmin | Mar 8, 2022 | Alanis Morsette, Already/Not Yet, ash wednesday, G.K. Chesterton, Ironic, News, rules, Servais Pinckaers, St. Thomas Aquinas, Veritatis Splendor | 0 |
Like a line out of Alanis Morsette’s nineties pop hit, “Ironic,” my birthday this year fell on Ash Wednesday. It was the first time, as far as I know, that the date celebrating my life on this earth coincided with the solemn day the Church reminds us of our mortality, and that, left to our own devices, we are merely dust.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 3, 2022 | Archbishop Michael Byrnes, ash wednesday, Catholic News Service, Church in Oceania, Guam, Lent, News | 0 |
As the Lenten season began, Archbishop Michael J. Byrnes of Agaña encouraged everyone to not only fast and sacrifice but to immerse themselves in the Bible and in prayer while striving to draw closer to God.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 2, 2022 | ash wednesday, Egypt, forgiveness, Lent, News, Return to God | 0 |
One of the challenges we Catholics face is the way in which our liturgical calendar almost becomes like white noise in the background.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 2, 2022 | ash wednesday, Lent, News, Return to me | 0 |
I spotted him sitting there as I hurried across the street, his head nodding from exhaustion and his light jacket doing little to shelter him from the biting cold.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 2, 2022 | ash wednesday, J.R.R. Tolkien, Middle-earth, News, Russia, Society of Catholic Scientists, The Dispatch, Ukraine, Women’s Health Protection Act | 0 |
Religious implications: “There are at least three clearly religious dimensions to this conflict that, so far, have largely been overlooked in most analysis.” With war in Ukraine, the global religious landscape is destined to shift […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 2, 2022 | ash wednesday, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, lead, News, Pope Francis, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis said that “prayer, charity and fasting,” are “weapons” that can change history and are specially needed today in his prepared remarks for Ash Wednesday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 1, 2022 | ash wednesday, Associated Press, Brazil, carnival, Church in the Americas, COVID restrictions, Lent, News, Rio de Janeiro | 0 |
Dozens of dogs and their owners in Rio de Janeiro challenged a city ban on street parties and gathered for their annual Carnival parade Sunday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 1, 2022 | Archdiocese of New Orleans, ash wednesday, Associated Press, carnival, Church in the US, lead, Lent, New Orleans, News | 0 |
People are out to party as New Orleans’ first full-dress Mardi Gras since 2020 dawns Tuesday, with a day of back-to-back parades through the city and masks against COVID-19 required only in indoor public spaces.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 1, 2022 | ash wednesday, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, COVID-19 pandemic, Lent, News, Palm Sunday | 0 |
Rules to contain the spread of the coronavirus limited the number of people attending Palm Sunday around the world in 2020 and 2021, causing a shortage for ashes to use on Ash Wednesday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 28, 2022 | ash wednesday, ashes, Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, Catholic News Service, Church in Asia, Church in Philippines, COVID-19 pandemic, News, Philippines | 0 |
Priests in the Philippines will be allowed to mark the foreheads of Catholics on Ash Wednesday, ending a two-year ban on the Lenten tradition due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 27, 2022 | ash wednesday, Commentary, Faith, lead, Lent, News, On Spirituality | 0 |
In these ancient Christian ascetical practices of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, we are able to open our hearts to the labors of integrity and allow for the hard work of transformation to happen.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 27, 2022 | 2022, ash wednesday, Columns, Fallen humanity, Fr. Paul D. Scalia's "Inward and Outward", Lent, Lenten sacrifice, News, our Lord's Passion, Vanity by Jan Sanders van Hemessen | 0 |
Fr. Paul D. Scalia: The subject of Lenten prayer is our Lord’s Passion and Death. His suffering displays divine love for us sinners.
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