Mary: The perfect Lenten companion March 7, 2025By Robert Fastiggi OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent In celebrating Lent and in every season of the liturgical year, it is good to recall the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, that the “Church honors with special love the Blessed Mary, Mother of God, who is joined by an inseparable bond to the saving work of her Son.”
Celebrating the four women doctors of the church March 7, 2025By Colleen Pressprich Filed Under: Commentary, Saints The doctors of the church are the saints that many of us need to understand the faith better, and more than that, to grow in our relationship with the Lord.
Fasting through Mom’s Lenten meals March 7, 2025By Elizabeth Scalia OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent In retrospect, all these meals were as awful as they sound, but — whether intentionally or not — they delivered a message that our fasting and our abstinences were meant to be taken seriously and not subverted through technicalities.
The Way of the Cross: Not only for Lent March 6, 2025By D.D. Emmons OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent Frequently and piously walking with him, contemplating his suffering and sharing our crosses, especially when we feel abandoned or in despair, gives us courage and hope.
Question Corner: What are the different kinds of sin? March 6, 2025By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Question Corner Not all sins are equally terrible, and the dynamic of how we come to fall into sin can vary depending on the circumstances.
What’s for dinner? March 6, 2025By Rita Buettner Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, Lent, The Domestic Church May Lent offer you the opportunity to experience Jesus’ love in a new way. And, as you walk your Lenten journey, know that this season can offer a time to grow closer to God without lentils – unless you personally happen to see them as a sign of Jesus’ love for you.
Lent and the purification of memory March 5, 2025By George Weigel Special to the Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, Lent, The Catholic Difference The annual 40-day pilgrimage through the desert of Lent, patterned on the Lord’s forty days in the Judaean wilderness in preparation for his public ministry, is the preeminent moment in the Church’s year of grace for the purification of memory — especially our memories of the successes and failures of living missionary discipleship since Pentecost 2024 closed last year’s season of paschal celebration.
Take up your cross March 5, 2025By Scott P. Richert OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent The only aspect of Christianity that the modern world seems willing to accept is service to others — so long as we don’t mention that we’re serving Christ in them.
10 tips for a Christ-centered Lent March 4, 2025By Tom Hoopes OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent If we cooperate with baptismal grace, the sacrament guarantees that we can “participate in the divine life of the Trinity” first of all by receiving the theological virtues: faith, hope and love.
Hope in the cross: A Lenten experience March 4, 2025By Erin O'Leary OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent We deepen our relationship with Christ through our Lenten disciplines and look to his crucifixion, death and resurrection to overcome the darkness that can cause us to struggle and despair.
The aroma of Christ March 4, 2025By Archbishop William E. Lori Catholic Review Filed Under: Charity in Truth, Commentary, Lent Those truly filled with Christ’s self-giving love cannot remain self-enclosed but instead are impelled to become a diffuser of his truth and love by how they live, what they say and by their love of others, especially those in need.
Called not to be served but to serve March 3, 2025By Greg Erlandson OSV News Filed Under: Commentary Pope Francis in his dozen years and counting has reformed the curia, overhauled Vatican finances, brought women and laymen into positions of authority, and appointed cardinals from the periphery rather than just the traditional cardinalate sees.
