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Painted nails on humans speak to beauty, utility
… on that experience, I kept thinking of the foot-washing ceremonies many of us conduct during Lent. There is clearly a lot going on in the pedicure and ornamentation experience. Books abound …
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
… gathered at their motherhouse on the feast of St. Joseph, a traditional day of recess from Lent. After a beautiful liturgy, someone remarked, “We forgot to renew our vows on our feast … We have been contemplating Jesus as the bread of life for five weeks. That’s almost as long as Lent. We have had time to ponder how God has shown us love and care from the time of the first …
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time: Coming to commitment
… gathered at their motherhouse on the feast of St. Joseph, a traditional day of recess from Lent. After a beautiful liturgy, someone remarked, "We forgot to renew our vows on our feast … We have been contemplating Jesus as the bread of life for five weeks. That's almost as long as Lent. We have had time to ponder how God has shown us love and care from the time of the first …
Letters to the editor: Press Freedom; Fight against abuse cover up transcends ideologies; The church and racism
… Archbishop Carlson mandated pastors in the Archdiocese of St. Louis to preach on racism during Lent. From what I heard from friends and family, many did not and many that did preach on racism …
Four things the church must do to respond to sex abuse
… and ashes,” which was another traditional penance for serious sins. Or a bishop could spend Lent on the street as a homeless person. Or he could spend Lent working in a shelter for abused women. The bishops need to do something serious, dramatic …
Clergy sex abuse revelations stun, anger Catholics in Buffalo
… have been carrying." Ledwon spoke about the sex abuse disclosures on the third Sunday of Lent in his homily. "I tried to contextualize it in terms of human weakness and that our primary …
Prospective Supreme Court nominee puts spotlight on People of Praise
… with other Christians and seeing the Lord at work in their faces and their lives," said Craig Lent, People of Praise's overall coordinator, or highest leader, who has been a member for 40 … getting involved in the charismatic renewal movement. "It's a great blessing to me," said Lent, who is a professor of engineering and of physics at the University of Notre Dame in South … direction by fellow laypeople. "It's just somebody you can talk to in confidence," said Lent, explaining that when he was a young father, his "head" gave him advice about matters as …
Being a community is how we become disciples of Jesus
… we are going back to the regular cycle of readings after we have gone through the season of Lent and Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, and those three feasts: Trinity, Corpus Christi and Sacred …
Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
… a psalm in its entirety as part of the Liturgy of the Word, but we do that with Psalm 130 in Lent, on All Souls Day and this Sunday. This psalm has two parts: the first a plea for mercy and … plan is always larger than our heart or imagination. 2 CORINTHIANS 4:13–5:1 After months of Lent, Easter and the solemnities of the past two weeks, we return to Paul’s Second Letter to the … the green vestments of Ordinary Time. Are you breathing a sigh of relief after getting through Lent and Easter and the last two Sunday solemnities? It’s a natural and healthy response. We …
Imagining Catholicism at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
… in plaster in the museum, are female. The Catholic vestments are the real deal; the Vatican lent some 40 pieces from the Sistine Chapel sacristy. So, everything sacred was male and …
Parishes grow only when people are welcomed, heard, pope says
… diocesan report on "spiritual illnesses" afflicting the city. Through a process that began in Lent, parishes identified the main challenges as "the economy of exclusion, selfish laziness, …
Diversity of Catholic Worker labors springs from founders' vision
… with non-Catholics as well. Kaleb Havens, a Los Angeles Catholic Worker who recently spent Lent fasting and chained to a fence to protest homelessness in his city, is not Catholic but …
Reducing waste: 'Throwaway culture' in spotlight as Earth Day targets plastics
… Styrofoam cups and plastic dinnerware?" Artaza-Regan said. … Small, successful steps … During Lent in 2016, roughly 400 parishioners at St. Columbkille Parish, in Papillion, Nebraska, outside … very uplifting," said Sr. Jean Marie Faltus, a member of the parish creation care team. This Lent, the St. Columbkille creation care team asked the leaders of parish ministries to ask their …
Green Mountain State's diocese gets greener
… and social media activity, the Year of Creation kicked off March 3, 2017, the first Friday of Lent, at Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Burlington. Coyne led a special Stations of the Cross …
The March for Our Lives changed me
… the crowds throughout the rally. Frankly, it was the best sermon I could have heard during Lent. Repent and redeem yourselves. Act. Help us make the world a better place. Now. …
'The Dating Project': Upbeat, realistic documentary offers hope for modern love
… articulates the root of the dating problem. The social "script," as Cronin calls it, that once lent structure to the process of courtship no longer exists. This has led to a host of challenges …
Eight Canadian dioceses withhold funds to Development and Peace
… withholding" Development and Peace's share of donations collected in its annual Share Lent appeal. He wrote that the funds are being withheld until he receives "clear assurance" that …
Life is never normal for those of us who believe
… season of 12 days receiving and giving gifts because God took on human flesh. We also love our Lent — 40 days of restraint, denial and challenge to improve. But this Easter — 50 days of …
Easter joy: A happy runner is a fast runner
… pleasing about the rhythm of your breathing and your steps. The same could be said of Lent. Making sacrifices, big or small, is not fun. Taking on any element of suffering usually … me that running does for some people — no thanks. But as you stick to your discipline during Lent, it becomes easier and easier and prepares your heart to notice and share in the joy of …
Holy Week with a toddler and a newborn
… love of God, won't you go to sleep now?" time. Gen jokes that she gave up going to church for Lent this year. She hasn't been able to get there since the baby was born on March 1. Searching …