Pope says Lent is time to let go of the frivolous, to choose truth, love February 22, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News What matters is the truth and the love that God sees, not what is superficial, showy and self-centered, Pope Francis said during a Mass to mark the beginning of Lent.
Changes to confession and absolution coming this Lent February 22, 2023By Christopher Gunty Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Lent, Local News, News, Worship & Sacraments As part of a multiyear project to better render the Mass and other liturgical rites into English from Latin, a slight change in the prayer of absolution will be made.
U.S. bishops’ collection for Eastern Europe’s Catholics increasingly crucial as war rages in Ukraine February 21, 2023By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, War in Ukraine, World News On Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22, faithful across the country are being asked to donate to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Collection for the Church in Central and Eastern Europe.
Professor sees religious tapestry woven across the millennia in Lent’s history, traditions February 19, 2023By Peter Finney Jr. OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, World News When Thomas Neal, a professor of spiritual theology at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, reflects on the history and traditions of Lent, he sees a religious tapestry woven across the millennia.
Pope: Synodal and Lenten journeys require effort, sacrifice, focusing on God February 17, 2023By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News The text of 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.
A question to ask yourself as you prepare for Lent February 16, 2023By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Lent, Open Window As we look ahead to the start of Lent, I’ve been thinking that that is a question we can ask ourselves about our relationship with God. “How do we show God that we love him, and how does he show us that he loves us?”
Force and suffering: Suggestions for Lenten reading February 13, 2023By Kenneth Craycraft OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent The road to joy may be the path of suffering. Endo’s “Silence” is a brilliant account of that paradox, and perfect Lenten reading.
New translation tweaks to sacrament of penance take effect this Lent January 31, 2023By Gina Christian Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments The experience of the sacrament of penance in the Roman rite will be slightly different this Lent, thanks to approved changes in the English translation set to take effect in a few weeks.
Good Friday gathering in Cumberland welcomes multiple denominations April 15, 2022By Greg Larry Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Lent, Local News, News, Western Vicariate A demonstration of Christian love was on display in Cumberland April 15 as an ecumenical Good Friday procession wound its way through a part of the city known as “Holy Hill.”
Ukrainian, Russian women hold cross together at Rome’s Via Crucis April 15, 2022By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, War in Ukraine, World News Jesus invites everyone to repent and to turn swords into plowshares and missiles into factories and homes, the papal preacher said.
Before washing prisoners’ feet, pope tells them God always forgives April 14, 2022By Cindy Wooden Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News Before washing the feet of 12 inmates, Pope Francis told them and other prisoners that God never tires of forgiving anyone who asks.
For Catholics, first in-person chrism Mass in two years is like a reunion April 14, 2022By Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, World News For many U.S. dioceses, this year marked the first chrism Mass to draw a capacity crowd of congregants since before the pandemic. For the last two years, COVID-19 turned most in-person liturgies into livestreamed events.
