“Jesus will show us where we need to repent and grow in virtue. He invites us to be healed.” – Christine Hanus
“Walking past the couple, my mother heard the woman say she no longer went to confession because she couldn’t think of any sins to confess.”- Christine Hanus
“Confessing regularly doesn’t just help us fight temptations and the enemy of our souls. It helps us love.” – Christine Hanus
“Here we can enter a gray area between venial sin, for which we are in some way directly responsible, and what spiritual writers call “imperfections,” for which we are only remotely responsible, if at all.” – Fr. John Bartunek
“The mortification is never an end in itself, but a means by which we become better followers of Christ.” -Fr. John Bartunek
“By the end of the rosary, all seven psalms have been prayed, with Mary! She doesn’t need them, but we do and she is surely happy to pray them with us.” – Monsignor Charles Pope
“For confession to really heal, it is necessary to go deeper. It is necessary to examine the deeper drives and motives of sin; to examine not only what I have done, by to ponder why.” – Monsignor Charles Pope
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.