God never gives up on us March 28, 2025By Archbishop Thomas Wenski OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent The door to that future is always open for us: it is the door of the confessional where sins committed after baptism are forgiven.
The people who bring Jesus to us March 24, 2025By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Lent, Open Window I smiled the whole way back to my seat. After Mass, we chatted about how wonderful it was that I had been able to receive the Eucharist from him. What an unexpected surprise and delight.
The tomb of Christ and the atomic moment March 24, 2025By Elizabeth Scalia OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent We stand before Christ, transcending time, awaiting the moment when the energy of light and life — unleashed at creation, and subsumed (just once) into the quiescence of a grace-filled womb — flares through that enshrouded body, reanimating, resurrecting.
Lenten lectures are back at Notre Dame, marking a ‘grand retour’ of a Parisian classic March 20, 2025By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Lent, News, World News The traditional “Lenten Conferences” resumed at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris this Lenten season, for the first time since the fire of April 15, 2019.
Question Corner: How does a vegan senior citizen handle Lenten fasting? March 20, 2025By Jenna Marie Cooper OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent, Question Corner While a vegan or vegetarian already fulfills the law of abstinence by just sticking to their usual meat-free eating habits, it might make sense for them to consider adopting an additional penance for Lent.
An Unforgettable Lesson March 16, 2025By Rita Buettner Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Lent, Open Window Children will forget things at home—the trumpet, the lunch, the math homework, or water bottle. Sometimes you can’t fix it. But sometimes you can—and you will.
Lenten food ‘doesn’t mean boring,’ says Catholic chef March 14, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Recipes, World News While the season of Lent is marked by fasting and abstinence, cooking for a hungry family in this season of prayer and penance “doesn’t mean boring or ‘fish all the time,'” a Catholic chef told OSV News.
A new heart this Lent March 12, 2025By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent Every one of us needs the grace of new life in Christ, and the entirely new heart that goes with it.
Rice Bowl needed ‘now more than ever’ as hunger rises, government aid falls, says leader March 7, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Giving, Lent, News, World News CRS, the official international relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic community, is marking the 50th anniversary of its Rice Bowl program, which has raised more than $350 million to support domestic and overseas poverty relief efforts.
Amid U.S. foreign aid freeze, CRS’ Rice Bowl could be in ‘its strongest moment,’ says founder March 7, 2025By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Giving, Lent, News, World News At the start of Catholic Relief Services’ 2025 Rice Bowl initiative — an annual Lenten program blending almsgiving and prayer to provide aid to overseas and domestic aid — OSV News spoke with Rice Bowl founder Monsignor Robert Coll, a retired priest of the Diocese of Allentown, Pa., about the program as it marks its 50th year.
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.”
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.
