How's your Lent going?

February 16, 2008 By

Why Catholics Sit, Kneel, Bow and Stand Thankfully, this year Lent has not completely gotten away from me as it did, last year. For that I credit the help of my Breviary – (psalmody is so very powerful and grounding, when we commit to it) and Anthony Bloom’s Beginning to Pray, and also the Gospels, [...]

Filed Under: Catholicism, Lent, Prayer

Stephen Colbert on Good & Evil

February 15, 2008 By

Over at Inside Catholic Margaret Cabaniss has embedded a great clip from the Colbert Report – Stephen Colbert going mano a mano – and very impressively – in a debate on the origins of good and evil, and the need for authority. You’ll enjoy, even with the bleep at the end! Related: Who Told You [...]

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2 More books for Lent?

February 11, 2008 By

In the mail today – received this excellent-looking book from Our Sunday Visitor: Within, editor Michael Dubruiel gives us accessible Pope Benedict XVI – records of his conversations with children, students, priests and others, and the exchanges remind me of these lovely exchanges between Benedict and young people, which I posted a while back. My [...]

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Do you keep holy water in your house?

February 11, 2008 By

I do. I periodically bless the rooms, doors and windows with holy water. When my kids were small I would bless them with it before they went out to school, or if they were sick. We have a holy water font by the front door – do you? It is – frankly – often dry. [...]

Filed Under: Catholicism, Culture of Life/Death, Faith, Lent, Parenting

What a smile!

February 9, 2008 By

Deacon Greg get his hands on the best pictures From Ash Wednesday:

Filed Under: America, Catholicism, Faith, Lent, Lent '08

The Worst Thing About Ash Wednesday

February 6, 2008 By

It’s always the sermon. I don’t know what it is with priests, but they just don’t get it. Without a laughtrack or a commentator or a jumbotron we only have a four-minute attention span, and they keep insisting on giving us 10-12 minutes, even on Ash Wednesday at 5 PM when people tired and thinking [...]

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What are you giving up for Lent?

February 1, 2008 By

Super Tuesday is on, ummm…Tuesday. And then Ash Wednesday follows, and the forty days of Lent, a time of quietening down – playing less, praying more. It seems like a perfect time for the over-harried American electorate to get centered, look within instead of without, and to beg Christ to draw near, to teach us, [...]

Filed Under: Catholicism, Faith, Lent, TV/Pop Culture/Music