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Lent

Lent’s promise in bleak times

February 18, 2021
By Elise Italiano Ureneck
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Lent

Perhaps it’s a blessing, then, that the church gives us Lent in midwinter. It’s a season of soul-searching; the gray skies give us no other choice but to turn inward and examine the dark spaces we’d rather not explore.

For Lent, ask if one’s life is centered on God or oneself, pope says

February 17, 2021
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News

Lent is a time to reconsider the path one is taking in life and to finally answer God’s invitation to return to him with one’s whole heart, Pope Francis said.

Ash Wednesday: Guided by St. Clare of Assisi

February 16, 2021
By Shemaiah Gonzalez
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Lent

This Lent, I call on St. Clare of Assisi to show me the way. I need a sister in Christ to lead me through Lent radically different than in Lents past — to embrace penance, conversion and self-sacrifice as Jesus refines me.

Lent is time to grow in faith, hope, love and to share them, pope says

February 14, 2021
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News

As Christians pray, fast and give alms during Lent, they also should consider giving a smile and offering a kind word to people feeling alone or frightened because of the coronavirus pandemic, Pope Francis said.

Lenten hymns and songs

February 12, 2021
By Catholic Review Staff
Catholic Review
Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Arts & Culture, Lent, Local News, News

Looking for some good Lent hymns and songs to use for meditation and reflection? Here are some favorites.

Pope to celebrate Ash Wednesday at Vatican, skipping ‘station churches’

February 11, 2021
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, World News

Pope Francis will celebrate Ash Wednesday Mass Feb. 17 in St. Peter’s Basilica rather than making the traditional walk from the Church of St. Anselm to the Basilica of Santa Sabina on Rome’s Aventine Hill, the Vatican said.

Change coming to prayer at Mass

February 11, 2021
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Divine Worship, Feature, Lent, Local News, News

Observant Mass-goers will detect a change in one of the prayers used at Mass beginning Ash Wednesday when priests will begin omitting the word “one” in the concluding doxology of the collect prayers that currently are translated as “…in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.”

‘The Social Dilemma’

January 27, 2021
By Effie Caldarola
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, For the Journey, Lent

Perhaps a good question to ask as we look forward to Lent: How much time do I spend daily in prayer versus how much time on social media?

Ash Wednesday, other Lenten Masses will see changes in Archdiocese of Baltimore

January 14, 2021
By Christopher Gunty
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, Lent, Local News, News

Upcoming liturgies in the winter and spring in the Archdiocese of Baltimore will continue to be affected by restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic, including traditional celebrations of the feast of St. Blaise, Ash Wednesday and Palm Sunday.

For Ash Wednesday, Vatican asks priests to ‘sprinkle’ ashes on heads

January 13, 2021
By Catholic News Service
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News

The Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments asked priests to take special anti-COVID-19 precautions this year when distributing ashes on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 17, including sprinkling ashes on the top of people’s heads rather than using them to make a cross on people’s foreheads.

As we await the Resurrection

April 10, 2020
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Lent, Open Window

Somehow in this time of anxiety and indefinite quarantine, when so much seems uncertain, we seem to be primed for those moments of happy discovery—those moments when we see how much we are loved by God and by others.

The bird at the feeder

April 7, 2020
By Rita Buettner
Filed Under: Blog, Lent, Open Window

We’ve waited. We’ve watched. And the bird feeder has hung there, full of seeds no one was eating.

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