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Seeking silence a way to transform the heart
… Rich Heffern … Palms are burned for ashes used to mark the start of Lent. (CNS photo/Bill Wittman) Palms are burned for ashes used to mark the start of Lent. (CNS photo/Bill Wittman) … Lent … First time visitors to Orthodox churches are often struck … especially during the Lenten season. An article in The New York Times recently focused on Lent's return to Russia, noting that Moscow rock stars were telling interviewers about their …
Madoff and Maciel: Two of a Kind
… he left a real charism to a Catholic clerical, religious, and lay organization.” Perhaps this Lent the U.S. bishops should make it mandatory for every Catholic to read the Securities and …
A Lenten exercise of nonviolence
… Jesus requires the daily inner work of deepening nonviolence. And what a better time than Lent? It's a time to look deeply at what's going on inside us and, where we are violent, to … forgiveness, as he sagged on a cross, to his murderers. My hope and prayer is that this Lent all of us can dig deeper into the mystical depths of inner nonviolence. And then move on …
Ash Wednesday: Dangerous old women
… everything that is not well needed. … The other side of the family too, during La cuaresma , Lent, … would tell whomever asked, that Cuaresma was a time of penitence for life wrongly lived, … of the World. … But, it didn't take long for me to realize that the official party line about Lent, was nothing like the reality. … Even as a young adult, I was doing Lent all wrong by trying … and I realized that Lent is indeed near the returning of the light in springtime, and that Lent's work is related to sculpture directly: to release a scintillating form from out of the …
Ash Wednesday
… ages past: Pulvis es, in pulverem reverteris – “Dust thou art, and to dust thou shall return.” Lent itself was originally a penitential season of reconciliation with the church – ashes and … “tomorrowitis,” that procrastination fungus that postpones a reform of life until next year’s Lent or even until your deathbed. The pharmacist-healer Jesus says to all those suffering from … … SIGN UP NOW … to receive an e-email alert each week of Lent directing you to Fr. Hays' reflection. Enrich your Lenten journey this year. Want to know …
Unclenching our fists: From protest to collaboration
… by the hand that is open), I am open to you as a human being." http:\\\\NCRonline.org\\Lent For a good part of the past eight years, in order to cope and survive, we have too often …
John XXIII calls the council
… in violation of the Third Commandment to “Keep holy the Lord’s day.”) http:\\\\NCRonline.org\\Lent Clarification of the council’s aims would only gradually come about through discussion and …
Beads, bells and belief
… of the laity, most especially its female, LGBT, and divorced members. http:\\\\NCRonline.org\\Lent There is such a richness of ideas and beliefs that have come out of the Catholic tradition …
Author examines films he deems 'politically incorrect'
… Fox TV series "The Family Guy") and the provocative ("Borat"). http:\\\\NCRonline.org\\Lent Heeding G.K. Chesterton's advice that one should "never let a quarrel get in the way of a …
The Week of Christian Unity
… is to welcome all baptized Christians to the reception of Communion. http:\\\\NCRonline.org\\Lent I recommend that readers review some of the previous essays on the Week of Prayer for …
Lambeau Field as church: Losing a sense of time
… their sense of flow within their daily lives revolves around the team. http:\\\\NCRonline.org\\Lent ( Mike Sweitzer-Beckman recently moved to Madison, Wis., after graduating with a Masters of …
Remembering Avery Dulles
… became a cardinal at age 90, who has had greater influence on that http:\\\\NCRonline.org\\Lent With the death of Avery Dulles last month, the Catholic church lost one of its most prolific …
'Special responsibilities of pro-life, pro-Obama supporters'
… place each year in this country. … Many prominent Catholics, strong pro-lifers among them, lent their prestige to the Obama campaign. They were assured that despite the president-elect’s …