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St. Patrick's feast will come early for some
… a dispensation that day from the abstinence from meat expected of Catholics during Fridays in Lent, according to the diocese Web site. Elsewhere around the country, bishops have asked that … "we're dealing with adult people who have a sense of what's important, namely Holy Week and Lent." …
Third Sunday of Lent
[Editor's Note: Because of technical difficulties, the first few minutes of this homily were not recorded. We regret this error.], I, s God in our midst or not? Well, recently I had an experience that made me realize, and I hadn't thought about it so clearly before, how desperate is the need for water and what people will do to get water. This past year in El Salvador, the government made a move to privatize water. Can you imagine? Something that every human person has a right to, the government is going to sell or allow people…
Second Sunday of Lent
A, s we listen to this gospel and to the three readings of today, it becomes very clear that the main subject for us to reflect upon is our call to follow Jesus, to be disciples of Jesus. That's clear because as we just heard proclaimed in the second lesson, Paul writing to Timothy, "Do not be ashamed of testifying to our Lord nor of seeing me in chains. On the contrary, do your share in laboring…
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
… to be challenged to change our lives because on Wednesday this week, we begin the season of Lent, Ash Wednesday. Of course, Lent is the time where every year, we try to enter into the life of Jesus more deeply, let his … Paul then, “is no more,” once we’ve gone through this radical conversion. During the season of Lent, six weeks we will have that opportunity and perhaps if we deepen our immersion into the way …
The Lenten Journey of Gospel Nonviolence (Part 1)
… John Dear … T … he 40 days of Lent invite us deeper into the journey of nonviolence, to walk more closely with Jesus to the … resistance to empire and suffering love for humanity. As we begin this year's holy season of Lent, I hear the Ash Wednesday blessing, "Repent of the sin of war and believe the Gospel of … (as the chief priest did during Jesus' trial), Joel tells us to tear our hearts in two. During Lent, we acknowledge our complicity with the social sins of war, greed, violence, poverty, …
Beefing up the Catholic in Catholic charities; Top Catholic Islamist takes a break; Covering the Jesuit's General Congregation
… He was on the public stage in Rome again this week, presenting the pope's message for Lent, which focuses this year on giving alms. In the brief message, Benedict encourages giving …
Vatican official supports Denver archbishop in dispute over Catholic charities
… very serious.” In a press conference today in Rome devoted to Pope Benedict XVI's message for Lent, which is on the subject of charitable giving, Cardinal Paul Josef Cordes, head of the …
Spe Salvi a 'Greatest Hits' collection of core Ratzinger ideas
… in his role as Pope Benedict XVI. Jesuit Fr. Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesperson, lent credence to this reading in a Rome news conference this morning, saying that in Spe Salvi …
Preview of the U.S. bishops' fall meeting
… where no priest is available to say Mass, and revisions to Scripture readings for Sundays in Lent. It does not appear that the bishops will receive any update on the five dubia (meaning …
Bishop Pierre Claverie of Algeria: Patron for the dialogue of cultures
… Claverie and the other Algerian bishops felt betrayed, arguing that the negotiations lent legitimacy to forces butchering anyone who stood up for a non-Islamist state. They also …
Fifth Sunday of Lent, Year C
T, he commentator on sacred scripture suggests that we ought to make the readings or at least the passage from the first reading today, from the book of the Prophet Isaiah, a part of our prayer every morning. God is saying to us, "See I am doing something new, even now it comes to light, can you not see it?" Isaiah was trying to get the people who were being kept in that terrible captivity in…
Papal preacher exalts non-violence, connects Nietzsche to Holocaust
… XVI during the weekly retreat he offers for the pope and senior Vatican officials each Lent. His subject was the promise of the Beatitudes in the New Testament: “Blessed are the meek, …
First Sunday of Lent
… returning nonviolence with violence, returning love for hatred. Now as we begin the season of Lent. We are faced with that same question that Jesus faced. Will we follow the way of God, the … second lesson today, the word of God is present within each of us. During this of season of Lent, we take extra time in our prayers to listen to that word of God within our own spirit, … world, but also into the larger world in which we live. We commit ourselves in this season of Lent to listen to that word of God within us, so that we can find the courage to follow that word …
Papal Preacher 'comes home' to Catholic charismatics in New Jersey
… responsible for leading retreats for the pope and senior Vatican officials during Advent and Lent, as well as delivering the Good Friday homily in St. Peter’s Basilica. The rest of the time, … Spirit will touch somebody here,” he said at one point. “Maybe later tonight, maybe during Lent, but this could be a life-changing moment for someone here right now.” Cantalamessa is such …
Positive energy from deacons and wives of Region One
… as a means of showing support. The Catholic girl hopes that her Muslim friend will go through Lent with her next year as a way of deepening their ties. On the strength of this experience, she …