the Lent thread

[Michie]

Cleaning Out the Junk


Editor’s Note: Paula Huston is one of the best contemporary writers on spirituality. Her new book, Simplifying the Soul (Ave Maria Press) provides a daily meditation and small but significant ascetic practice for each day of Lent. We think it will become a classic and be used for years to come. If you are looking for a guide through Lent, this is it. CE will be running an excerpt from the book each week during Lent.


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[Michie]

Video: Archbishop Chaput explains how you should prepare for Lent...

 

[Michie]

Pope Benedict's Wednesday Audience: Lent is a time "to conquer the desert of our spiritual aridity, selfishness and materialism"...

 

[Michie]

Here are the official rules for fasting and abstinence on Ash Wednesday and throughout Lent...
In the United States pregnant women, nursing women, people over 60 and children under 18 are not obligated to fast (eat only one full meal) on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. However, all Fridays of Lent are days of abstinence (no meat) for those 14 and older.

 

[Chany]

I'm actually gonna take Christ and Lent seriously!!!!!!! You know, like actually read the Bible.

 

[Michie]

I'm actually gonna take Christ and Lent seriously!!!!!!! You know, like actually read the Bible.

 

[Michie]

Practical Advice for a Deeper Faith this Lent

Great Lent

A New App for Catholics: Praying the Rosary Throughout the Day

 

[balesom]

So yesterday was different for me. It's the first year I haven't given up all meat for Lent... and I already forgot to not eat meat yesterday. There was an incident involving a turkey sandwich. Didn't think anything about it, until about dinnertime.

 

[FranciscanSpirit]

Video: Archbishop Chaput explains how you should prepare for Lent...

I love him so much, he was my Archbishop in Denver. He would celebrate Mass almost every single Sunday night, and stand in the door like any Pastor and greet the parishioners as they left.

 

[Michie]

The Desert of the Most Holy Sacrament...
Mother Mectilde de Bar preached this exhortation to her community assembled in Chapter one Ash Wednesday. A true Benedictine, she puts her finger on pride, identifying it as "the source of all our faults and even of all our misfortunes."

 

[Michie]

The Key to True Fasting...
Required fasting is almost non-existent in the Catholic Church today. Even the two days where fasting is required for those over 18 and under 60, it is really a mitigated fast of two small “snack-like” meals and one regular sized meal (no snacks in between now!). Not really a fast at all.

 

[Michie]

You're going to die...
On Ash Wednesday, as we went up for ashes, there's a good chance that as he applied them to our foreheads, the priest said, “Remember, man, that you are dust, and to dust you shall return,” a reference to Genesis 3:19. A friend of mine asked how we, as Catholics, should understand this...

 

[Michie]

The Los Angeles Times -- yes, THAT Los Angeles Times -- carries a surprising story about St. Louis-Marie de Montfort's Total Consecration...

 

[cajunhillbilly]

You're going to die...
On Ash Wednesday, as we went up for ashes, there's a good chance that as he applied them to our foreheads, the priest said, “Remember, man, that you are dust, and to dust you shall return,” a reference to Genesis 3:19. A friend of mine asked how we, as Catholics, should understand this...

Gee they do the same thing at Anglican churches.

 

[Michie]

Lent: Why The Christian Must Deny Himself

40 Ways to get the Most out of Lent

 

[Michie]

Gee they do the same thing at Anglican churches.

Lots of Churches give ashes.

 

[Michie]

The Idiot’s Guide to Fasting and Abstinence: 5 Things You Should Know...

 

[Michie]

Good Mourning

Lent is Not Over Until It is Over, Here’s Some Humorous Help for Latecomer Resolutions

Cardinal Newman on Lent

Why Fasting?

Introduction to Lent III: Almsgiving

 

[Michie]

Reflection of God

What is it like when Christ discloses his mysterious presence in prayer?

 

[Michie]

Pope Benedict XVI is pushing, visibly, to restore meaning and vigor to Lent...
As of tomorrow, it will be Lent for all. According to the Roman rite, this has already begun with Ash Wednesday, while according to the Ambrosian rite used in the archdiocese of Milan, which observes an older calendar, this dynamic period of the liturgical year begins on the sixth Sunday before Easter.