Are you in need of a physician? How about a Divine Physician? The Gospel Reading for the Mass for the Saturday after Ash Wednesday: Luke 5:27-32: “After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the customs post. He said to him, ‘Follow me.’ And leaving everything behind, he got …
The Responsorial Psalm for the Mass for the Friday after Ash Wednesday is Psalm 51. Rather that revisit it I shall just mention that it is pretty much the perfect prayer (after the Lord’s Prayer) for penance and conversion. I had earlier written a series of meditations on Psalm 51, they can be found here …
Jesus makes it clear in today’s Gospel Reading for the Mass for the Thursday after Ash Wednesday what you have to do to be His follower: Luke 9:22-25: “Jesus said to his disciples: ‘The Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed …
The Second Reading for the Mass for Ash Wednesday announces a particularly good news: 2 Corinthians 5:20-6:2: “Brothers and sisters: We are ambassadors for Christ, as if God were appealing through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who did not …
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Sean, over at Catholic Roundup, a blog and website that is a directory and one stop shop for all things Catholic New Media (blogs, podcasts and such) has a new project for the Lenten season. It is the 40 Days of Catholic Media 2011. Sean’s purpose is three-fold: to use the 40 Days of Lent …
Every year Creighton University in Nebraska offers excellent Lenten seasonal resources. This year is no different as I direct you to: Praying Lent 2011 (Via Creighton University.) As I said, it is an excellent resource for a fruitful Lent. Are you a creative Catholic? “The Catholicpunk Manifesto” is my new book exhorting Catholics to apply …
Tomorrow begins Lent, a 40 day period of personal interior conversion and renewal. It is also a time to examine our relationships with other people and perhaps repair them. As Christians we are a community, members of the Body of Christ. If our relations with other people are in a shambles, then our attempts at …
Well, it’s out! Judy Zarick’s interview with me, scheduled for this week, is available here: American Catholic Radio looks at Ash Wednesday, conversion and social justice The program is called “Living Faith with Judy Zarick.” (Via Franciscan Media.) All in all, the editing was great. It is a 5 minute distillation of a 20-25 minute-long …
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just remember… Noah was a drunk Abraham was too old Isaac was a daydreamer Jacob was a liar Leah was ugly Joseph was abused Moses had a stuttering problem Gideon was afraid Sampson had long hair and was a womanizer Rahab was a prostitute Jeremiah and Timothy were too young David had an affair and …
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