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Commentary

An invitation from God

March 23, 2023
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Lent, Open Window

Every year as the Feast of the Annunciation approaches, I think of how our Blessed Mother received the news that she would be the mother of Jesus.

‘Annunciation’: Salvation and the words of the air

March 23, 2023
By Bishop Robert Reed
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary

In March, with Christmas now feeling well-behind us, we nevertheless touch it again, for on the 25th of this month we observe the Solemnity of the Annunciation as recorded in the Gospel of St. Luke.

Fully entering into the Triduum

March 23, 2023
By Bishop Donald J. Hying
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Easter, Lent

God leaves the safety and glory of heaven, in a certain sense, and embraces the limitations of our human condition, coming to know in the flesh both the glory and tragedy of our nature without ever having sinned.

Question Corner: Jesus became man so I could become God?

March 20, 2023
By Jenna Marie Cooper
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner

Even in the heavenly life of the world to come, we retain our human nature.

The mental health crisis crosses all boundaries and ages

March 16, 2023
By Effie Caldarola
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary

We’re all called to love unconditionally, to be the Prodigal’s father welcoming with open arms, to open our doors to a wider perimeter.

Hold the tuna casserole; pass the crab cake this Lent

March 15, 2023
By Gerry Jackson
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Lent

In the Land of Pleasant Living, we are blessed with many pleasant meatless options.

Question Corner: Do we relax our Lenten fasts on Sunday?

March 14, 2023
By Jenna Marie Cooper
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Lent, Question Corner

The time of Lent is not meant so much to provide us with a literal 40 forty days of penance, but rather to recall Jesus’ 40 days of fasting in the desert.

Pope Francis: 10 titles for 10 years

March 14, 2023
By Elizabeth Scalia
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Vatican

Before he was known for anything else, Pope Francis was known as “the first non-European pope in nearly 1,300 years.”

Let’s make another St. Patrick’s Day Parade memory

March 12, 2023
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Open Window

For as long as I can remember, the Baltimore St. Patrick’s Day Parade has been part of my world.

Question Corner: Weekly Friday sacrifices: You mean they never went away?

March 9, 2023
By Jenna Marie Cooper
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Lent, Question Corner

Our obligation to do some form of penance on Friday is identified in Canon 1250 in the Code of Canon Law, which tells us that “The penitential days and times in the universal church are every Friday of the whole year and the season of Lent.”

A Lenten Search

March 8, 2023
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Commentary, Lent, The Domestic Church

This Lent, as we walk toward Easter, we have a beautiful opportunity to ask ourselves what is missing in our spiritual life and spend time just being with Jesus.

This Lent, you are right where you need to be

March 6, 2023
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Lent, Open Window

Some Sundays getting to Mass is trickier than usual, and this weekend, my husband and ended up going to separate services since we were all on different schedules. I was running behind, and I headed to a parish we only visit occasionally.

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