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Lent

Fullerton Passion Walk a ‘deeply moving’ experience

March 30, 2023
By Kevin J. Parks
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, Local News, News

The “Passion Walk,” a series of 18 near-life-size dimensional sets depicting the final days in the life of Jesus, is not unlike what one might see at a theater production.

Life in Christ

March 30, 2023
By Father Joseph Breighner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Commentary, Lent, Wit & Wisdom

Like Jesus, we don’t have to look for approval, control or safety outside ourselves.

A miracle at a Sunday Mass in Connecticut

March 28, 2023
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Lent, Open Window

The fact that the hosts have become Jesus’ body through the consecration is its own miracle. This possible multiplication of the hosts feels like a miracle on top of a miracle—and it fills me with joy.

Pre-Vatican II Mass was formed by ‘clericalization,’ says papal preacher

March 24, 2023
By Justin McLellan
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News, Worship & Sacraments

Clericalization led to the separation of the clergy from the faithful in the church’s liturgy celebrated before the Second Vatican Council, said Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher of the papal household.

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.

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.

A heart filled with scorn, vain presumption is a ticket to hell, pope says

March 17, 2023
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News

The faithful must set aside their egos and sense of superiority over others to make room for God and his tender mercy, Pope Francis said at a Lenten penance service.

Archdiocese dispenses with meatless obligation for St. Patrick’s Day

March 16, 2023
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, Local News, News

Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori has granted Catholics in the archdiocese a dispensation from abstinence from eating meat on March 17.

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.

Bishops add some spiritual ‘meat’ to St. Patrick’s Day dispensations

March 10, 2023
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, World News

With St. Patrick’s Day falling on a Lenten Friday this year, many U.S. bishops have issued dispensations from abstinence on March 17, allowing the faithful to enjoy the American Irish tradition of eating corned beef (or ham) and cabbage in good conscience.

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.”

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