Tag: Lent
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Liturgy 0, Popular Piety 1
Whether the Way of the Cross should be held on March 25 or not.
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The Annunciation on the Lenten Journey
In this moment of the Annunciation, Mary is able to say something about who she IS, in order to step forward into who she will BECOME.
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Samaritan Sacramentality: 3rd Lenten Sunday, 1st Scrutiny
How to preach in the contemporary Roman Catholic context the complex story of a multiply divorced and remarried woman? How proclaim a word enabling two young men to be a sign of conversion for us all?
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The First Temptation of Ministry?
I got to wondering to what extent “workism” has infected my own life, work, and ministry.
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The Lenten Bucket List
Ultimately, I believe there is one item on the discipleship bucket list: to be a more faithful disciple. Everything else is frosting, or gravy (neither of which I’ve given up for Lent), or what have you.
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Ars Praedicandi: Listening in the Wilderness
Some people give up something for Lent—chocolate, or booze, or some other pleasure. Some people instead take on a discipline or a practice, like daily devotions or acts of mission. Whatever we decide to do, or not to do, it seems to me that the most important thing in these forty days is to listen…
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A Time of Waiting
Some of our days this Lent will be unavoidably hectic, the rush and scurry leaving us exhausted by late evening. But there will be other days that are less jam-packed, where the treadmill slows down and we have unaccustomed time and space that is not determined by others, where time is our own.
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Will you be my VaLENTine?
We’ve all seen the diocesan responses to the Valentine’s day/ Ash Wednesday dilemma — celebrate on Shrove Tuesday, do penance on Ash Wednesday, they say. Brian Flanagan has a better both/and solution.
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Good Reasons to Be Vegetarian
Why being vegetarian can make sense for a Christian.