. Lent is intended to be a season for intensifying the disciplines of our faith — not the only time when we practice them!
Lenten lessons: Practices to keep all year
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Filed Under: Commentary, Lent
Mission by mail
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Filed Under: Commentary
God can and does use anything and everything to reach us, to communicate his love, to connect us to one another. It seems that a mission to spread the joy of the Gospel can be conducted by mail.
Forgiveness Sunday
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Lent
Many Eastern Christians — both Catholic and Orthodox — set the tone for the penitential season of Lent by observing another tradition: Forgiveness Sunday.
Let God choose your Lent
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Filed Under: Commentary, Lent
Lent can feel a lot like a competition, a 40-day spiritual marathon with winners and losers.
Faith signaling: What you see may not be what you get
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OSV News
Filed Under: 2024 Election, Commentary
As the primaries heat up, we should guard ourselves against uncritically supporting candidates who know how to present themselves on the political stage as devout Catholics or concerned Christians.
The greatest New Year’s challenge: Letting go
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary
Being attached to anything other than God himself will prevent me from living in the fullness and freedom of his grace.
Unity is impossible? Here’s what a 450-Year-Old, 40-part motet can teach us
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OSV News
Filed Under: Advent, Arts & Culture, Commentary
The richness of 40 distinct voices lifts the soul upward, but also outward.
Catholics and Jews and Jesus, the King
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Conflict in the Middle East
Antisemitism has continued to rise around the world for the past decade, but what has unfolded since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israeli civilians demands our attention and response.
Does Purgatory really exist? ‘I hope so,’ said the priest
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Filed Under: Commentary
In purgatory, we will finally become all we were created to be, what God deems what we’d call the “best version of ourselves.”
Eucharistic heart of Mary: Tabernacle, Monstrance and Minister
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OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Eucharist
Catholics who want to grow in holiness and virtue can’t do much better than focusing on the two pillars of our spiritual treasure — the Eucharist and Mary – which anchor us as little else can.
