As we turned to leave Mass, I saw that a little boy in the back had snagged a balloon.
Lent
Gratitude at the grocery store
A few months ago, I noticed that our grocery store no longer had hand-held shopping baskets. If you wanted to shop, you had to use one of the large rolling grocery carts.
Listen, for heaven’s sake!
To listen to Christ is not merely to obey, but to hear deeply, in the place where daily conversion can occur. In this declared “Year of Prayer,” it is not too much to consider that listening is very much a part of the act of prayer.
Exhibit of 200 relics at New Jersey oratory is a special gift during Lent for many faithful
Nearly 3,500 of the faithful came from as far as Maine and Maryland and waited over two hours to view 200 relics of Jesus, the Holy Family, and various saints, martyrs and blesseds exhibited at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Oratory in Montclair Feb. 24.
‘You will never wash my feet!’
In our highly polarized society that has divided everyone into “us” and “them,” the apparent incompatibility of the washer and the washee is exactly the point of the ad.
A Lenten lesson from a bicyclist
Lent is young, and we have such a beautiful opportunity to grow in love for Jesus in the days ahead. What a wonderful journey this can be.
Hundreds to come into full communion with Catholic Church in Archdiocese of Baltimore
Talk to any of the nearly 700 catechumens and candidates who filled the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland Feb. 18 for the Rite of Election and the Call to Continuing Conversion who will enter the Catholic Church this Easter, and you won’t hear them reflect about a sense of adventure on a new journey.
Friar who said Ash Wednesday Mass for Roumie, Wahlberg shares how to meet God in Lent’s ‘desert’
Father Mark-Mary Ames of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal had an atypical Ash Wednesday this year after celebrating an early morning Mass for actors Jonathan Roumie and Mark Wahlberg.
Vices are ‘beasts’ of the soul that need taming, pope says at Angelus
Vices, such as vanity and greed, are like “wild beasts” of the soul that risk tearing people apart, Pope Francis said.
Forgiveness Sunday
Many Eastern Christians — both Catholic and Orthodox — set the tone for the penitential season of Lent by observing another tradition: Forgiveness Sunday.
Pope gives seminarians Lenten goals
During Lent, Pope Francis said, Catholics — and especially Catholic seminarians — should rediscover the joy of simplicity, pay less attention to their appearance than to their prayer lives and make a special effort to get along with everyone they live with.
Lenten retreat: Book helps people explore pope’s teaching on belonging
Pope Francis’s concern for migrants and refugees, his focus on ecology, his calls to “go out” to share the good news of salvation, even his support for the controversial possibility of informally blessing LGBTQ+ couples flow from his conviction that people need to know they belong to God, to one another and to creation.