How fortunate we are to find strength and support in our friends – and offer them our love and support in return. We can be sure that those connections are no accident.
A friend indeed
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Commentary, Lent
Lent
Chrism Mass brings together Catholics for oils, affirmation of priesthood
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, Local News, News, Worship & Sacraments
More than 1,000 joined the celebration – including more than 140 priests, 70 deacons and 60 seminarians and candidates for the permanent diaconate.
Pope Francis and the Grieving Mother
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Blog, Commentary, Lent, Open Window
That exchange with those grieving parents has had a deep impact on my Holy Week. The way the pope holds the mother and reaches out to the father shows such compassion and love. The way he pauses to pray with them as if they are the only people in the world is such a beautiful gift.
Holy Land patriarchs in Easter message place ‘ultimate hope only God’ amid increasing attacks on Christian sites
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OSV News
Filed Under: Easter, Feature, Lent, News, World News
Just as early Christians were sustained by the words of St. Peter describing Jesus’ resurrection as offering a “new birth into a living hope,” so too should the Christians of the Holy Land today be encouraged and empowered by this knowledge as they face tumultuous times, when their own faith continues to be tested, said the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in their March 31 Easter message.
Pope says be close to those ‘abandoned’ like Christ: unborn, migrants
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, Lent, News, Respect Life, Vatican, World News
The unborn, migrants, the elderly and the disabled are “living icons” of Jesus that call Christians to draw close to those who feel abandoned just as Christ did on the cross, Pope Francis said.
On the brink
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Charity in Truth, Commentary, Easter, Feature, Lent
The redemptive act of Christ, done in obedience to the Father’s saving will, embraced the full range our triumphs, tragedies and sins.
Fullerton Passion Walk a ‘deeply moving’ experience
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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