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Eco-friendly Lent recipe: fun flavors for overnight oats
… Elizabeth Varga … Catholics fast during Lent and abstain from eating meat on Fridays. We give something up that inhibits our relationship … shouldn't be temporary. Many Catholics not only abstain from eating meat during the Fridays of Lent, but also on every Friday of the year. Some Catholics, like me, have chosen to abstain from … meat, we can help reduce destruction to the environment and be good stewards of creation. This Lent (and perhaps beyond), maybe the simple act of abstaining from meat can help us grow closer …
The Francis Effect podcast: War in Ukraine, the pope's student dialogue, and Lent
… students across the Americas, and they talk about what they are planning for the season of Lent. … How do I listen? … Click the "play" button at the top of the page to start the show. Make …
Prayer and fasting
… to make true the words of the song, “Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.” Lent comes for some of us like an oasis in a desert of overactivity, distraction and dissonance. … an awareness of others. Giving away our surplus to those in need rebalances everyone. Still, Lent is less self-help than a journey. Every disciple sets out on the road to Jerusalem because … the full burden of human failure and its consequences in order to lift up the world in glory. Lent is the school of love that enables us to follow him, imitate him, share this mission. So, we …
As pandemic's limits ease, palms burn in preparation for Ash Wednesday
… to burn to provide the ashes smudged on people's foreheads on Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. At the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington, which was closed to the public … the first two years of the pandemic that it was hard to tell when Ordinary Time ended and Lent began, Father Jim Gardiner, a Franciscan Friar of the Atonement, said in a homily prior to … With Catholics in most places in the U.S. returning to some semblance of a pre-pandemic Lent season, Father Gardiner offered some suggestions to "get us in the mood for Lent," to see …
As Ukraine bleeds, Pope Francis and Russian Patriarch Kirill could be negotiators
… serious escalation between Russia and the United States gives new purpose to the season of Lent and its call to prayer and fasting. Does history offer any precedent for hope that this …
April 3, 2022: Fifth Sunday of Lent
Pope Francis again pleads for an end of conflict: 'Those who make war forget humanity'
… pope also reiterated that he has called on Catholics and all believers to mark the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday, March 2, with a day of prayer and fasting for Ukraine. "Slava Isusu …
See me, hear me
… within and contemplate the simple beauty of people and ordinary life everywhere. We begin Lent this week, a time to find the desert places where silence can heal the soul and teach us …
Pope Francis calls Ukraine's President Zelensky to express 'sorrow' amid war
… immediately." Pope Francis has called for Catholics and all believers to mark the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday, March 2, as a day of prayer and fasting for Ukraine. …
March 27, 2022: Fourth Sunday of Lent
Under doctor's orders, Pope Francis cancels travel plans to Florence
… and mayors from the Mediterranean and to preside over a Mass for the start of the season of Lent at the Basilica of Saint Sabina on Rome's Aventine Hill on March 2. The pope has called for …