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Join us for Ash Wednesday services
If I were forced to pick one expression that best summed up the spirit of Lent it would be: “Renew us, Lord!” This is a time of grace and love. This is a time not of “being alone” in the desert, but quite the contrary. This is a time of allowing God to be so present, so totally present, that our lives will be made new through his love. This is God’s time. This is a time of grace.
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Lent is a road map guiding us back to God
So this Lent it is all right and very proper to have our own “gypsy feet,” as long as the wandering is a wandering back to God.
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What is the difference between ‘fasting’ and ‘abstinence’?
Catholics between the ages of 18 and 59 are obliged to fast on Ash Wednesday on Feb. 26 and Good Friday on April 10. In addition, all Catholics 14 and older must abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday, all the Fridays of Lent, and Good Friday. But what is the difference between “abstinence” and “fasting”?
Continue readingA Lenten return to Jesus
In these 40 days of Lent, I want to call us — myself first of all — to deepen our sense of the mystery of our lives in Christ. I want us to try to go deeper in our personal conversion, deeper into the heart of the Gospels and the New Testament writings.
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