“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.
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!
