“Lent is a time of atonement for our sins. But proper atonement isn’t self-denigrating.” Debra Black challenges us to give up negative self-talk.
What comes out when life’s trials and tribulations squeeze you? Stephanie Burke offers something to think about in these unprecedented days.
Debra Black reflects on how to make this Lent truly transformative.
Debra Black provides a beautiful reflection on the restorative aspect of Lent.
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.
How is the spiritual life like Candyland? Debra Black offers a reflection as we look forward to 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.”
Why should we not fear the end of our mortal lives? What example does Christ’s death on the Cross give to us?
As we begin Holy Week, St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross meditates on the good that comes from desiring and carrying the Cross.
What should true mortification aim at?
