Lent with St. Francis: Take Up Your Cross
If our own goals, possessions, and even families and friends distract us from the Lord’s call, then we are not truly choosing life.
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Lent with St. Francis: Be Faithful to the Gospel
“Turn away from sin and be faithful to the Gospel.” These are the words most often used as we are signed with ashes. It is a call to conversion, a call to follow Christ, a call to change our lives.
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Let Us Pray: Allowing, Aiding, and Abetting
I've come to believe that Lent is not about doing. It's about not doing. It's not about trying, but letting ourselves take that ramble through the desert. Prayer is the backbone of Lent.
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Dust to Dust: An Ash Wednesday Reflection
More than simply a call to give up creature comforts, Lent invites us to confront our vulnerability and embrace our brokenness.
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Lenten Reflection: Five Reasons to Go to Confession
Pope Francis has told us not to be afraid or ashamed to go to confession. You will not “encounter a severe judge there, but the immensely merciful Father.”
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Learning to Live Poorer: A Meditation for Lent
“If we want to be at peace,” Wendell Berry writes, “we will have to waste less, spend less, use less, want less, need less.”
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