Tag: Penance

What is Mortification?

Fr. John Bartunek, LC March 4, 2025 No Comments

“The mortification is never an end in itself, but a means by which we become better followers of Christ.” -Fr. John Bartunek

For Holy Week: A Rosary of the Penitential Psalms

Msgr. Charles Pope March 21, 2024 2 Comments

“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

From Perfunctory Penitence to Compelling Confession In Four Easy Steps

Msgr. Charles Pope February 27, 2024 6 Comments

“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

Ash Wednesday – Lent Begins

Liz Estler February 26, 2020 6 Comments

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.

Powerful Pre-Lent Tradition – Septuagesima Sunday

Dan Burke January 29, 2020 4 Comments

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.”