Category: Lent

To Be Hidden with Christ in God

How can we be hidden with Christ in God, as St Paul says? Father Gabriel of Saint Mary Magdalen reflects on St Teresa Margaret of the Heart of Jesus’ spirituality regarding this.

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Giving Up the Self-Talk

“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.

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What is Your “Essence”?

What comes out when life’s trials and tribulations squeeze you? Stephanie Burke offers something to think about in these unprecedented days.

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Ash Wednesday – Lent Begins

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.

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Powerful Pre-Lent Tradition – Septuagesima Sunday

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.” 

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Death

Why should we not fear the end of our mortal lives? What example does Christ’s death on the Cross give to us?

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