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Lenten hunger strike raises profile of Los Angeles homeless crisis
… with people who might not have it already." Havens added that he did his action during Lent because he particularly hoped to reach people of faith. He held up the Catholic Worker …
Morning Briefing
… on the Celebration page . … NCR and its sister publications offer quite a few resources for Lent (and when appropriate, the Easter season): Start your day inspired with daily Scripture … strangers in their own country … Taking some spiritual exercise: … Walking the labyrinth in Lent … Did you see this story from earlier? … Archbishop Lori calls for renewed focus on Rev. …
Morning Briefing
… on the Celebration page . … NCR and its sister publications offer quite a few resources for Lent (and when appropriate, the Easter season): Start your day inspired with daily Scripture …
Protesters, fans turn out for Fr. James Martin's talk in Chicago
… of at least one of his canceled talks — in the Archdiocese of Chicago during the last days of Lent, a penitential season observed by many Christians leading up to Easter. "This is all very …
Palm Sunday
… term, but it has the disadvantage of ignoring the shift that occurs Thursday evening, when Lent ends and the Triduum begins. This is the final Sunday of Lent, while the proclamation of the Passion points us toward Good Friday. Today’s liturgy points …
Morning Briefing
… on the Celebration page . … NCR and its sister publications offer quite a few resources for Lent (and when appropriate, the Easter season): Start your day inspired with daily Scripture …
God's saving love embraces us all
… obey him, who obey Jesus." You may remember that three Sundays ago, on the second Sunday of Lent, we heard the Gospel of the transfiguration of Jesus. When Peter, James, and John saw Jesus … my life, my love for all people, I will draw all to myself." So we begin the last two weeks of Lent prepared to try to repeat what I presume we told ourselves on that second Sunday of Lent: I will try to listen more deeply to Jesus, to follow him more clearly, more faithfully. …
FOCUS plans to graduate to parishes with 'spiritual multiplication'
… with his wife, but the ministry quickly broadened beyond the young adult demographic. This Lent, the two missionaries are coordinating 16 Bible study groups of eight to 10 parishioners …
Morning Briefing
… today: … Swiss theologian Hans Küng turns 90 … Time is running short. What are you doing for Lent? We offer you a a chance to enhance your prayer and reflection over these holy days using … on the Celebration page . … NCR and its sister publications offer quite a few resources for Lent (and when appropriate, the Easter season): Start your day inspired with daily Scripture …
Fifth Sunday of Lent
… would reveal the New Covenant and the ever-forgiving love of God. … Planning: 5 th Sunday of Lent … By: Lawrence Mick If you are celebrating the third scrutiny today, you will be using the … since every Eucharist draws us into contact with the death and resurrection of Christ. But Lent, Triduum and Easter form the annual cycle that calls us more explicitly and more deeply into the process of conversion. As Lent progresses, that call becomes more and more insistent, leading us to our fullest celebration …
Fifth Sunday of Lent: Lifted up into life
What do you think about death? About your death? It is a subject that we often try to avoid — a reaction that only strengthens its ability to disturb us. Have you noticed that while lots of TV shows depict death — be it in gun battles, car crashes, murder, mayhem, war or "justifiable homicide," entertainment rarely depicts a funeral? Death is the occasion for meting out justice, for detective…, Editor's note:, This Sunday scripture commentary appears in full in NCR's sister publication Celebration, a worship and homiletic resource. Request a sample issue at CelebrationPublications.org . Sign up to receive email newsletters every time Spiritual Reflections is posted.
Morning Briefing
… accused of abuse to removal from office, exile … Time is running short. What are you doing for Lent? We offer you a chance to enhance your prayer and reflection over these holy days using … on the Celebration page . … NCR and its sister publications offer quite a few resources for Lent (and when appropriate, the Easter season): Start your day inspired with daily Scripture …
Campus Notebook: St. Thomas University CFO resigns; Sister Norma Pimental receives 2018 Laetare Medal
… award, so named because its recipient is announced on Laetare Sunday, the Fourth Sunday of Lent, "was conceived as an American counterpart of the Golden Rose, a papal honor that antedates …
Where there is God, there is love
… Thomas Gumbleton … We begin today this second half of Lent, beginning of the fourth week. Many of us, I think and rightly so, have a sense of Lent of being kind of a penitential season, a season where we're looking at what's wrong with … But if we listen to the second lesson today, we might get a totally different idea about Lent and what we are preparing to celebrate in our baptism, which is what we celebrate with the …
Prepare for the unanticipated in your wild and precious life
… could be avoidable. But we can't avoid them, which means we need to prepare for them. And Lent is a time for just that. The passion of Christ teaches us many things, but the lesson that … so that when the ultimate temptation came — to let the cup pass — he didn't turn away. Lent is the same for us, a time to strengthen our resolve so that when hard times come, God is …
St. Louis archbishop, a longtime hunter, supports gun control
… in this country, and recently urged his priests to speak against racism on the first Sunday of Lent this year. "All has to be part of the national debate," he told NCR. "We have to listen to …
The poor, needy are your treasure, pope tells Sant'Egidio Community
… pray the Angelus. Reflecting on the celebration of "Laetare" (Rejoice) Sunday, the midpoint of Lent, Pope Francis said that during the Lenten season, Christians are called to reject the …
Fourth Sunday of Lent
… vivendi, indicating that as we pray and believe, so shall we live. On this Fourth Sunday of Lent, we are invited to look at our prayer, our belief and our life and to ask ourselves: How … is to share eternal life. That’s how much God loves the world. … Planning: 4 th Sunday of Lent … By: Lawrence Mick Today is Laetare Sunday, the midpoint of Lent. Will your people notice? When they enter the worship space, will this Sunday look different …
Fourth Sunday of Lent: Living in God's love
… vivendi , indicating that as we pray and believe, so shall we live. On this Fourth Sunday of Lent, we are invited to look at our prayer, our belief and our life and to ask ourselves: How …
Morning Briefing
… hosting 'Me Too' activist … . Read it every week and stay up to date! What are you doing for Lent? We offer you a a chance to enhance your prayer and reflection over these holy days using … on the Celebration page . … NCR and its sister publications offer quite a few resources for Lent (and when appropriate, the Easter season): Start your day inspired with daily Scripture …