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by bcadmin | Mar 25, 2022 | Anointing of the Sick, Catechesis, Catechism, confession, Essay, Features, Lent, News, penance, Sacrament | 0 |
Sacraments of Healing The Catechism’s introduction to the “sacraments of healing” is so good that the best service to be provided here is simply to cite it verbatim: Through the sacraments of Christian initiation, man […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 17, 2022 | confession, Faith, Knowing the Faith, Mercy, News, penance, Reconciliation, Sacraments, sin, Surrender & Strength | 0 |
Photo by Josh Applegate on Unsplash I have been thinking a great deal about my experience at Reconciliation a few weekends ago. I felt an intense and unexplainable urge to go and confess my sins when I woke up Saturday morning.…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 28, 2021 | Advent, Commentary, Faith, lead, News, On Spirituality, penance | 0 |
Advent is best lived as a penitential season. It summons us to wait for the Lord, to pause, to reflect, to ask hard questions of ourselves, and to place first things first.
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The penitential character of Advent has gradually eroded in recent centuries. Today, many are content to prepare for the birth of Our Lord merely in a material sense; preparing meals, buying gifts, decorating houses, traveling to family, etc. Few, however, […]
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 19, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Mass, News, Orthodoxy, penance, Penitential Rite | 0 |
Immediately after the greeting offered by the priest, the Congregation is invited to an Examination of Conscience. All must humbly admit, acknowledge, and confess that we spiritually fall short. In blunt, we are all sinners. However, that is precisely the reason for Jesus’ coming to earth. Jesus came to save us from sin and its […]
by bcadmin | Mar 12, 2021 | Between the Sundays, Featured, Isaiah, joy, Laetare Sunday, Living the Faith, News, penance, promise, rejoice, sacrifice, suffering | 0 |
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 11, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, family, Featured, Lent, Marriage & Family, News, penance | 0 |
Penance and Lent are not just about growing in discipline. Lent is a season aimed at conforming our hearts to the heart of Christ. It means loving those he loves and also loving in the way that he loves. To find the answer to both of those, we need only to look to the cross.
by bcadmin | Mar 5, 2021 | Between the Sundays, death, Featured, four last things, Heaven, Hell, judgment, Living the Faith, memento mori, News, penance, sacrifice, sin | 0 |
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 26, 2021 | Between the Sundays, Church History, Featured, Lent, Living the Faith, News, penance, Pilgrimage, Prayer, prayer life, Rome, sacrifice, station churches | 0 |
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by bcadmin | Feb 19, 2021 | Between the Sundays, Featured, Isaiah, Lent, Living the Faith, News, penance, Prayer, prayer life, sacrifice, Spiritual Life | 0 |
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Lent is an opportunity to grow in charity through the call to die-to-self. By a gratuitous gift from God, the supernatural virtue of charity is being poured out on us in abundance.
by bcadmin | Feb 17, 2021 | ash wednesday, Lent, News, penance, Those Catholic Men | 0 |
As we begin this forty days’ Lenten journey – what Eastern Orthodoxy aptly calls “Forty Nights of Bright Darkness” – it is a good thing to reflect upon the meaning of those ashes placed upon our foreheads in the sign of the Cross with the words “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you […]
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