Category: Penance-Reconciliation
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French Muslims attend Mass today
This is not a question of interreligious prayer (which is a delicate question), but of interreligious encounter.
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A Place for Reconciliation
Should the Church be holding more open-air reconciliation events, out in the sunshine?
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Viewpoint: The Practice of Lenten Fasting Has Many Dimensions
We are reminded that we can never be satisfied by ordinary food, which satisfies only momentarily but then perishes.
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Celebrating Reconciliation in Advent
What is the experience of the second rite of the sacrament of reconciliation in your parish?
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Prayer for a Peaceful World
Fourteen years ago today, at about this time, we watched the unfolding events of September 11, 2001. Let us pray for all those who suffered that tragedy, and for those throughout the world who suffer persecution, displacement, war, and terror. May our remembering lead us to the realization of peace.
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Rituals for Catholics Coming Home?
What does your parish do when Catholics who have left the church behind seek to return home? What ritual expressions, if any, do you give to this return? Are there any resources available for these journeys? An Austrian friend e-mailed me a recently asking whether it was true that in the U.S. some catholic parishes…
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Non Solum: First Confessions
The liturgical celebration is no longer seen primarily as a sacramental ritual, but a rite of passage detached in many ways from its religious function.
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Lord, I am Not Worthy But Speak the Word Only
Lent is a time of return, that which was lost is found again and a new beginning is sought. Lost sheep are brought back to the fold.