Lent

Keeping Quiet for Lent

by Dan Lord on March 15, 2013 · 4 comments

It’s 2013, and if I want to hear music I don’t have to be deprived for a single split-second.  I just pop in one of the 400 CDs I own. After an entire morning of one CD after the other,…

We Are Only As Sick As Our Secrets

by John Moore on March 14, 2013 · 5 comments

Kevin Power’s book, The Yellow Birds, is his first novel and one of the best written accounts of the life of a Soldier in combat that I have read since coming to the Army nearly 35 years ago.  It is…

Undoing Our Addictions During Lent

by Sarah Babbs on March 13, 2013 · 7 comments

I weigh less now, at 29 years old, than I did in 7th grade, when my nickname was “Sarah the Whale”. My weight has been a battle for most of my life. I was a cute, chubby kid when I…

We Are an Easter People

by Kate Wicker on March 12, 2013 · 4 comments

“Mommy, why are you so grumpy?” my 8-year-old asks. I’m on a tear, gathering stray socks, shoes, and toys from the floor. I’ve morphed into what I’ve jokingly come to refer to as a “Tsu-Mommy.” All I see is the…

How to Help Others Through Lent

by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. March 11, 2013

For many, Lent means spiritual self-improvement through sacrifice.  It’s often all about what to “give up” for Lent.
But Jesus’ 40 day fast in the wilderness was not for his own sake.  It was all to prepare for his ministry,…

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How to Keep a Good Lent

by Dr. Ryan N.S. Topping February 27, 2013

The beauty of ritual is that it breaks up the monotony of change.  Every year it’s the same question: what are you giving up for Lent? Around Ash Wednesday, in pious circles at least, fasting ideas are traded like baseball…

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True Catholic Mercy

by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. February 26, 2013

Most religions in the ancient world were local, national cults.  The Egyptians worshiped Isis and Osiris.  Athens was named after the goddess Athena.  Ephesus was the center of the cult of Artemis.
But when the Church was born on Pentecost…

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Pope Benedict’s Farewell Angelus

by Pope Benedict XVI February 25, 2013

Dear brothers and sisters!
On the second Sunday of Lent, the liturgy always presents us with the Gospel of the Transfiguration of the Lord. The evangelist Luke places particular emphasis on the fact that Jesus was transfigured as he prayed:…

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Spending Lent With Mary

by Sarah Reinhard February 21, 2013

She’s not a distant figure from two thousand years ago. She’s not a woman on a pedestal in my parish church. She’s not an image of perfection that’s impossible to attain.
Instead, she’s covered in dust and shaking with silent…

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Why Is Lent Forty Days?

by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. February 15, 2013

In the English language, the special season before Easter is called “Lent.”  The word comes from the “lengthening” of daylight hours as we progress from the darkness of winter to the new light of spring.  But other languages, such as…

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