How did Ash Wednesday get started? Find out in this excerpt from an older text on this celebration and practice … as we begin the discipline of Lent.
Dom Prosper Guéranger, O.S.B., abbot of Solesmes from 1837-1875, devoted a whole volume of his great work – The Liturgical Year to
Septuagesima. In his Preface, Dom Guéranger referred to Septuagesima as a season of “transition, inasmuch as it includes the period between two important Seasons, – Christmas and Lent.”
“Choose mortifications that don’t mortify others.” Claire Dwyer expounds on this saying of St. JosemarÍa Escrivá in today’s reflection.
Dan Burke and Melissa Elson discuss readers’ questions about frequent confession and the importance of confessing venial sins.
Fr. John Bartunek explains what one should say to a priest in a devotional confession.
Dan Burke and Melissa Elson answer questions from listeners about sin and confession, attachment to sin, mortal and venial sin, and much more!
Why go to confession when you have no sins to confess? Find out when Fr. John Bartunek explains the benefits of this sacrament of mercy.
Fr. John Bartunek explains how the interior motive is different between penance and mortification … and how each can be done during Lent!
Fr. John Bartunek answers a reader’s question about what mortification is and how it helps us to practice it.
How does the sacrament of confession work in us? Father Gabriel of Saint Mary Magdalen explains in this excerpt from his classical Carmelite meditation book “Divine Intimacy”.
