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Lent

Biden attends Ash Wednesday Mass celebrated in Warsaw hotel room by anti-communist priest

February 22, 2023
By Our Sunday Visitor
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, World News

Wrapping up his three-day visit to Poland Feb. 22, President Joe Biden attended Ash Wednesday Mass in his hotel room in Warsaw.

Pope says Lent is time to let go of the frivolous, to choose truth, love

February 22, 2023
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News

What matters is the truth and the love that God sees, not what is superficial, showy and self-centered, Pope Francis said during a Mass to mark the beginning of Lent.

Changes to confession and absolution coming this Lent

February 22, 2023
By Christopher Gunty
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, Local News, News, Worship & Sacraments

As part of a multiyear project to better render the Mass and other liturgical rites into English from Latin, a slight change in the prayer of absolution will be made.

U.S. bishops’ collection for Eastern Europe’s Catholics increasingly crucial as war rages in Ukraine

February 21, 2023
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Crisis in Ukraine, Feature, Lent, News, World News

On Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22, faithful across the country are being asked to donate to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Collection for the Church in Central and Eastern Europe.

Professor sees religious tapestry woven across the millennia in Lent’s history, traditions

February 19, 2023
By Peter Finney Jr.
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, World News

When Thomas Neal, a professor of spiritual theology at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, reflects on the history and traditions of Lent, he sees a religious tapestry woven across the millennia.

Pope: Synodal and Lenten journeys require effort, sacrifice, focusing on God

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

The text of the pope’s message focused on seeing Lenten penance and the synodal experience both as arduous journeys that lead to the wondrous experience of Christ’s divine light and splendor.

A question to ask yourself as you prepare for Lent

February 16, 2023
By Rita Buettner
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Lent, Open Window

As we look ahead to the start of Lent, I’ve been thinking that that is a question we can ask ourselves about our relationship with God. “How do we show God that we love him, and how does he show us that he loves us?”

Force and suffering: Suggestions for Lenten reading

February 13, 2023
By Kenneth Craycraft
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Lent

The road to joy may be the path of suffering. Endo’s “Silence” is a brilliant account of that paradox, and perfect Lenten reading.

New translation tweaks to sacrament of penance take effect this Lent

January 31, 2023
By Gina Christian
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, World News, Worship & Sacraments

The experience of the sacrament of penance in the Roman rite will be slightly different this Lent, thanks to approved changes in the English translation set to take effect in a few weeks.

Good Friday gathering in Cumberland welcomes multiple denominations

April 15, 2022
By Greg Larry
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, Local News, News

A demonstration of Christian love was on display in Cumberland April 15 as an ecumenical Good Friday procession wound its way through a part of the city known as “Holy Hill.”

Ukrainian, Russian women hold cross together at Rome’s Via Crucis

April 15, 2022
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Crisis in Ukraine, Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News

Jesus invites everyone to repent and to turn swords into plowshares and missiles into factories and homes, the papal preacher said.

Before washing prisoners’ feet, pope tells them God always forgives

April 14, 2022
By Cindy Wooden
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News

Before washing the feet of 12 inmates, Pope Francis told them and other prisoners that God never tires of forgiving anyone who asks.

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