LIVING THE CATHOLIC FAITH IN THE 3RD MILLENIUM
A LAYMAN'S LOOK AT THE JOURNEY OF FAITH
How can we maintain some realm of holy quiet? How to “do” Holy Week, especially if we will not be participating in all the special church liturgies at this time? Here are just a few suggestions.
The prayers and rituals of Holy Week are particularly formative and transformative if we allow them to be.Let the rituals of Holy Week guide your heart toward God.
Christians cannot understand the Eucharist unless they understand the Jewish Passover.
Face-to-face with the historical life and death of Jesus, who died a common criminal, whose life terminated in a crumpled heap indistinguishable from so many broken bodies before and after his.
Daily email reflections throughout the Lenten season dealing with the story of hope, of justice, of God’s presence in a chaotic, broken world.
The light that Jesus shows the disciples is an anticipation of Easter glory, and that must be the goal of our own journey, as we follow ‘him alone.
The pope's message focused on seeing Lenten penance and the synodal experience both as arduous journeys that lead to the wondrous experience of Christ's divine light and splendor.
Lent is not about "doing something positive," We need to practice the self-emptying that Jesus modeled. We Catholic Christians love Lent because we need it.
It is not enough to just receive mercy from God. We must be transformed by God's mercy and become "witnesses of mercy.
American Catholics all deeply hunger for unifying, sacramental, even mystical experiences that can reveal the sweetness of the Gospel, the Word that makes a difference in our lives.
Join the Center for Action and Contemplation online contemplative community for a free series of Virtual Sit Meditations broadcast every Friday during Lent.
If Easter is associated with celebration and triumphal joy, Lent is more a season of soul-searching and spiritual discipline.
Lent is about being honest with ourselves, changing what needs to change in our lives, making our world a better place and growing into the Light.
For a fresh appreciation of the Holy Week scripture readings, embrace your inner actor.
We must realize the grace of God is for all, and Jesus, the great high priest, sacrificed himself for all of us so that no one needs be left wanting God’s grace.
Tim Muldoon invites us to reflect on trial and suffering.
Rebecca Ruiz places herself in the Scripture passage the night Jesus prayed in Gethsemane.
Vinita Hampton Wright shares a prayer exercise inspired by Andrea Mantegna’s The Dead Christ (Lamentation of Christ).
Every Friday during Lent, the Pope's Museums offer a unique, thematic itinerary, ranging from sarcophagi to the art of Caravaggio and Michelangelo, to meditate...
The Way of the Cross is full of lessons for the life of any disciple. The question of why suffering exists finds its answer in Christ’s transformation of suffering through love. Christ’s cross makes sense of our own.
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