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Reading this on the computer? On the iPhone? You only sat down for a moment, but someone already Tweeted you. Now, a FaceBook friend request – accept or decline? But here’s a blog post from some seminarian in Rome. Sounds … Keep reading
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Grant, O Lord, that we may begin with holy fasting this campaign of Christian service, so that, as we take up battle against spiritual evils, we may be armed with weapons of self-restraint. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, [...]
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Lent is a time for reflection. It involves prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Some of these practices do not always feel like they have the same level of meaning that one hopes for. One still participates with the same intentions, because … Keep reading
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Rev. David Syverson FARGO – The Fargo Catholic Diocese …
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Sacrifice is at the very heart of being a priest and being a Catholic. This Lent, restoring sacrifice is the key to being a Church in the modern world. Most readers know by now that there is a lot going on in my situation. I want to thank writer,…
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English Chant Workshop at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Prattville, Alabama. Saturday, March 3, 2012. 10:00am – 4:00pm. Chant is sung prayer—if you can speak it, you can sing it! Whether you’ve never sung before, or are singing in a choir, this …
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This is the one I’ve been dying to share with you. Christopher West has been criticized for emphasizing the marriage part of Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body, but he really does glorify the beauty and importance of … Keep reading
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10/02/2012 02:54:00: Holy God, cleanse the leporsy of my sin and pride. Renew a right spirit in me, may I partake of the Body and the Blood, ever to gain the cross and lose my life for You.
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SPIRITED LENT”Your Holy Spirit take not from me.” -Psalm 51:13Today, the Church marks our foreheads with an ashen cross as we begin the season of Lent. The ashes represent the death of a way of life. We repent to the very depths of our being. We deny o…
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The season of Lent begins on Wednesday, February 22nd. To assist us in preparing for this holy season we’ve created a Lenten page on the website. You’ll find the link to this page in the navigation bar near the top of the page next to our Mass Schedule button. This page provides a schedule of [...]
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Today the Church begins the annual season of Lent, when we communally as Christians recognize that we have turned away from God and choose to begin the journey home. Lent, in many ways, is like hitting the reset button on our computer. When our lives become burdened with sin and frozen in complacency, we are [...]
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Our fallen nature leads us to pleasurable things. As we see throughout history, whether salvation history or world history, in many cases it is about the “us”, not the “them” or the “Him”. As a catechist, it is difficult to explain and “get through” the benefit and value of penance to young people. No one [...]
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Dust Thou Art, and Unto Dust Shalt Thou Return.
#ashtag #ashes
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Here is a surprising fact about the Gregorian propers for Sunday during Lent: they mostly explore major keys.
Listen to the Introit for the first Sunday of Lent:
Lent – First Sunday: Introit from Corpus Christi Watershed on Vimeo.
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It’s Ash Wednesday and I’m hungry. In fact, I’ve been hungry ever since last week when I realized that for the first time in five years I would not be expecting or nursing a baby on Ash Wednesday and therefore … Keep reading
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Ash Wednesday is finally here, and thus the beginning of Lent. Ash Wednesday is an old tradition of the church, dating back to the eighth century, in which the faithful receive blessed ashes made from the palms of last year’s Palm Sunday. Continue re…
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February 22, 2012 The Catholic League’s 2011 Annual Report on Anti-Catholicism is now available. It covers all the major issues that the Catholic League dealt with in 2011, along with many others that came to our attention…
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Vatican City, 22 February 2012 (VIS) – During his general audience this morning, the Holy Father dedicated his catechesis to the subject of Lent (which begins today, Ash Wednesday), the period of forty days leading up to the Easter Triduum, memoria…
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Wednesday, February 22ASH WEDNESDAY; DAY OF FASTING AND ABSTINENCE Be creative this LentIs it Lent already? Yes, which means another season of opportunity to grow in faith. Consider how you might wisely spend the next 40 days by focusing on one thi…
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