Lenten Healing by: Kathleen Beckman – Catholic Exchange Lent’s forty days of prayer and fasting offer a process of healing and liberation. In Lent we place ourselves nearer to the suffering servant, Jesus Christ. We ponder the Redeemer’s suffering. We…
Lenten Message: Time to grow in faith, hope and love by: Cindy Wooden – Catholic News As Christians pray, fast and give alms during Lent, they also should consider giving a smile and offering a kind word to people feeling…
Our Lenten Journey Begins: Ash Wednesday – February 17 by Marty Doucette – Catholic Exchange Ash Wednesday will start our Lenten journey – what Eastern Orthodoxy aptly calls “Forty Nights of Bright Darkness” – it is a good thing to…
2021 Catholic Faith Appeal Be generous, and you will be prosperous. Help others, and you will be helped. (Proverbs 11:25) CFA Q&A What is the Catholic Faith Appeal and for what are its proceeds used? The Catholic Faith Appeal (CFA)…
Protecting Life from Natural Conception until Natural Death by Janine Marrone We have heard it often in the Mass and throughout the liturgical year: “protecting life from natural conception to natural death” is a stalwart of Catholic teaching. Despite that,…
Finding HOPE in the Trials of Life by Sam Guzman – Catholic Exchange Psychologists tell us that one of the chief evils of our age, an evil apparently less evident in earlier ages, is that of easy defeat. Be this…
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity by Junno Arocho Esteves – Catholic News Service The 2021 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity should help Christians see that the closer they draw to Christ, the closer they will be to one…
Baptism of the Lord By Cynthia Marie – Catholic Exchange This Sunday, the Catholic Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Baptism of Our Lord. This brings to an end the season of Christmas. The Church recalls Our Lord’s second manifestation…
The Feast of The Epiphany Parish Life – Catholic News Agency The Feast of the Epiphany, traditionally recognized on January 6th, is the day that the Magi or Three Wise Men visited the Christ Child and marks the end of…
Feast of the Holy Family From The Congregation for the Clergy – Catholic Culture The devotion to the Holy Family was born in Bethlehem, together with the Baby Jesus. The shepherds went to adore the Child and, at the same…