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'God makes a way': African American parishes respond to COVID-19 disparity
… who use it for school. St. Anselm's offered the Stations of the Cross over the phone during Lent and now has weekly calls in which parishioners share spiritual and scriptural resources. …
US bishops wrestle with whether or how to open churches
… it differently. But whether it happens soon, or later, churches will reopen. It's been a long Lent, Catholics are now in the joy of an Easter season that is far less gleeful, and the question …
Don't rest on the rests
… No need then for proofing the dough. No need for time to let it rest and ferment. Sometime in Lent I cleared out a space in the alcove-turned-home-office and brought up the old keyboard from …
Near the rumble of the 7 train, Queens parish and pastor endure the pandemic
… about the bills, just like most of his parishioners. All the well-planned sacraments for the Lent and Easter seasons will have to wait. The parish was forced to cancel six confirmation …
An Easter without Eucharist cannot keep Christ from being among us
… up by the facts of the situation. The difficult fast to which this particular season of Lent has called us must continue through Sunday and beyond. Whether Catholic, Protestant or …
14 Earth Day events you can join from your screen
… (September 1 – October 4) Advent (November 29 – December 24) New Year’s Resolution 2021 Lent 2021 (February 17 – April 1) … Hope for Creation: A Virtual Celebration of Earth Day and …
Women demonstrate what the priesthood of Jesus truly means
… our powerlessness and trust God. I also sought community and comfort during the latter part of Lent, Holy Week and the Easter season. It was instructive. The first learning is how uninspiring …
NCR readers share how they keep spiritually grounded, part three
… enough "Sacred Space" by the Irish Jesuits "dotMagis" from Ignatian Spirituality "Living Lent Daily" from Loyola Press Connecting with old friends in various locations. Connecting with …
A tale of two Pope Francises
… Shortly after Mass, the pontiff seemed to reiterate his point via Twitter : "In these days of #Lent, we've been witnessing the persecution that Jesus underwent and how He was judged …
Everything happened in the garden
… of your life," and what is waiting for you in the garden this Easter? What lessons from Lent are you still harvesting? Any new insights about food and faith? What habits of body and …
Christians threatened as Islamists push for control of Africa's Sahel
… and hope for a better future remain a fundamental imperative for the African continent. In Lent, we will pray to the Prince of Peace for conversion, reconciliation and justice, basic …
From darkness to light when all is dark
… condition a couple of weeks back, when the Office of Readings for Friday in the fourth week of Lent contained this passage from one of St. Athanasius' Easter letters. Always beautiful, it …
NCR readers share how they keep spiritually grounded, part two
… the crisis? … The current crisis began unfolding in my community right at the beginning of Lent. For me, it has made this Lenten season more real. Living a more simple, ascetic life …
Grace will conquer hopelessness
… Which is not so much believing that you exist, but coming to you and trusting in you. This Lent your call reverberates urgently: "Be converted!", "Return to me with all your heart" (Joel … same week, there was a meme going around on social media that stated, "This is the Lentiest Lent I have ever Lented." This Lent, more than ever, we are being called to a faith that purifies. We are …
NCR readers share acts of kindness, part three
… thinking of me. … In what ways, if any, has your faith helped you to deal with the crisis? … Lent was the perfect time for this to happen. I had made the effort to be humble and now we don't … helped you to deal with the crisis? … I know that God loves us all the time. Having this be in Lent leading to Easter and with the whole world coming back to life, puts the connection of …
After overturning of Pell's conviction, Francis prays for those suffering 'unjust sentences'
… day due to the global Covid-19 pandemic, the pontiff said that Catholics during the season of Lent have seen "the persecution that Jesus underwent, and how the doctors of the law persecuted … 7, the pope's Twitter accounts in various languages repeated his message. "In these days of #Lent, we've been witnessing the persecution that Jesus underwent and how He was judged …
Copy Desk Daily, April 7, 2020
… Manson lives near the "epicenter of the epicenter," of New York City. She says the "Lentiest Lent ever" has given way to the most harrowing Holy Week ever. But you don't have to believe in …
You don't have to believe in God to witness a crucifixion this week
… the sacred cannot avoid the rich symbolism. Indeed, what the memes have called the "Lentiest Lent ever" — filled with the forced surrendering of countless sources of stability, comfort, …
Don't surrender to your loneliness so quickly
… of social distancing. What might you learn from quarantine and (possibly) loneliness this Lent? … Lenten Daily Food Reflections … pause | reflect | act … Editor's note: … These daily …
Light of Christ
… promises us, despite the evidence, that the story we are living will end well and in glory. Lent this year began as it always does, with ashes and good intentions. It will end as Easter …