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LA's Gomez: Mahony, other bishops 'moving forward'
… prayers for grace with concrete actions of healing and renewal." Mentioning the beginning of Lent Feb. 13, Gomez writes that "recent events should inform our prayer, penance and charity in this season of Lent, which begins next week with Ash Wednesday." "All of us need the grace of a new conversion," Gomez writes. "This is what Lent is for." The archdiocesan documents released in recent weeks are part of two caches of …
+DiNoia: Christmas & Newtown
… to keep our hearts pure, to confess our sins regularly, not just twice a year in Advent and Lent, so that we allow the devil no point of entry into our hearts and minds. We cannot change …
"To Hell With It" - The Motu Proprio
… help them to recover it. I try and help out at my parish’s RCIA each year. And during Lent, they usually invite me to speak to those who will be joining the Church about the Triduum. …
First Sunday of Advent begins a season of hope and fulfillment
… Before the middle of the fourth century, there were no liturgical seasons, such as Advent or Lent, or any idea of a "liturgical year," something many Christians take for granted today. The … of the Roman Empire. The liturgical year, with its broad seasons of Advent-Christmastide and Lent-Eastertide, evolved within this world of the Roman Empire -- a northern hemispheric world. …
Former Dominican Volunteer uses law degree to help low-income New Yorkers
… and our Catholic faith ordered our way of life. The liturgical seasons were meaningful; Lent and Advent shifted our daily lives. My brother and I were altar servers (I was among the …
Bernard Häring, a witness of critical love for the church
… The meeting ended without any solution or action. The next day, the fourth Sunday of Lent, six of us went to Häring's religious house to celebrate a liturgy at which he presided. The …
Bishops face the growing retirement crisis of religious orders
… to confession for a long time to return to the sacrament of reconciliation, or penance, this Lent and to begin again to experience the spiritual benefits of the sacrament, which many …
Bishops agree on need for better preaching, more penance
… confession for some time. It will be made public in time to allow for dioceses to prepare for Lent 2013. The bishops approved a reorganization of their Communications Department that would …
Jesuit priest evangelizes online, on TV and at the altar
… every day and brings her to his public appearances, including the Fordham event. And each Lent, Martin calls his college friends, who continue a tradition of deciding what he'll give up …
Internal matters top agenda of bishops' fall assembly in Baltimore
… In addition, the bishops are scheduled to vote on a document encouraging Catholics to see Lent next year as an opportunity to return to regular celebration of the sacrament of penance and …