Lent

Pope preaches patience, even amid war, during Holy Week audience

March 27, 2024
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News

Contemplating Christ’s passion should inspire Christians to be more patient in the face of their own suffering and trials, Pope Francis said.

Pope writes meditations for Via Crucis at Colosseum, Vatican says

March 27, 2024
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News

For the first time in his 11-year papacy, Pope Francis has chosen to write his own meditations for the Good Friday Way of the Cross service at Rome’s Colosseum, the head of the Vatican press office said.

U.S. bishops ask faithful to pray during Holy Week for end to Israel-Hamas war

March 25, 2024
By OSV News
OSV News Filed Under: Bishops, Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, Lent, News, World News

The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on International Justice and Peace called upon the faithful to renew prayers during Holy Week for an end to the Israel-Hamas war.

Discernment is essential to discipleship, papal preacher says

March 22, 2024
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, Vocations, World News

The Holy Spirit is like a line prompter at a theater, behind the scenes and constantly whispering to Christians the words of Jesus, said the preacher of the papal household.

Lenten lessons: Practices to keep all year

March 21, 2024
By Jaymie Stuart Wolfe
OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent

. Lent is intended to be a season for intensifying the disciplines of our faith — not the only time when we practice them!

Five Things to Know about Archdiocese of Baltimore’s annual Chrism Mass

March 20, 2024
By Gerry Jackson
Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Lent, Local News, News, Vocations, Worship & Sacraments

The Archdiocese of Baltimore’s 2024 Chrism Mass will be held Monday, March 25, 7:30 p.m., at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, 5200 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21210.

Five ways to make Holy Week more holy

March 20, 2024
By Gretchen R. Crowe
OSV News Filed Under: Commentary, Lent

Blessedly, Holy Week offers us the chance to refocus, reflect and renew as we wind down our Lenten journeys and look ahead to the promise of Easter.

A Holy Week FAQ: Why the ‘Passion’? What’s Tenebrae? And why does Easter’s date change?

March 20, 2024
By Lorene Hanley Duquin
OSV News Filed Under: Easter, Feature, Lent, News, World News

A quick FAQ guide to Catholics’ Holy Week vocabulary and key history.

Papal preacher: Hope helps ‘crippled’ hearts rise up, leap for joy

March 15, 2024
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News

Hope “is the opposite of impatience, of haste, of ‘everything immediately.’ It is the antidote to discouragement. It keeps yearning alive,” Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa told Pope Francis and members of the Roman Curia during a Lenten meditation in the Paul VI Audience Hall March 15.

Pope preaches patience, even amid war, during Holy Week audience

Pope writes meditations for Via Crucis at Colosseum, Vatican says

U.S. bishops ask faithful to pray during Holy Week for end to Israel-Hamas war

Discernment is essential to discipleship, papal preacher says

Lenten lessons: Practices to keep all year

Five Things to Know about Archdiocese of Baltimore’s annual Chrism Mass

Five ways to make Holy Week more holy

A Holy Week FAQ: Why the ‘Passion’? What’s Tenebrae? And why does Easter’s date change?

Papal preacher: Hope helps ‘crippled’ hearts rise up, leap for joy

Papal preacher: Christians are ‘wounded healers,’ meant to help others

Pope tells priests: ‘Don’t ask too much’ during confession, forgive always

Question Corner: For those who avoid meat anyway, is there another Lenten Friday penance?

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