Life
Ryan Kraeger

Lent: A Time for Building Habits

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.” ― Will Durant Thus Will Durant sums up Aristotle’s theory

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Religion
Fr. Joseph Gill

The Nobility of Sacrifice

Newly-ordained Fr. Al Schwartz stepped off the train in Seoul, South Korea, into a zombie apocalypse. It was 1957, and the devastation wreaked by the

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Religion
Fr. Gerald Musa

God Loves You So Much

The irony of love, people say, is that we ignore those who adore us and adore those who ignore us; we hurt those who love

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Columnists
Nicene Guy

Lent and Love

What is the point of the Lenten sacrifices [1]? Why do we fast on some days, abstain from meat on others, and then also give

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spiritual maturity
Scripture
Fr. Joseph Gill

Spiritual Maturity

It struck me the other day that these First Readings during Lent all have a common theme: they tell the story of Salvation History through

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Family
Michele Chronister

The Sensitive Child and Lent

Lent is one of my favorite times of the Church year. There is a lot of richness in these forty days, and so much opportunity for

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Columnists
Nicene Guy

Temptation and Lenten Penance

During the Lenten season, we seek to turn back from sin and to God. Each of the practices of Lent—prayer, fasting, and almsgiving—helps us to

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Prayer
Marissa Standage

Why Sacrifice for Lent?

It’s two weeks now since Ash Wednesday, and most Catholics have given up some desirable thing as a sacrifice. For instance, most families I know

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Columnists
Fr. Joseph Gill

Ash Wednesday

In Jesus’ day, the word “hypocrites” didn’t really have any bad connotations. Actually, it just meant an actor in a play. Hypocrite literally means “one

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Dating
Cristina Montes

Romantic Thoughts for Ash Wednesday

“Terminate torment Of love unsatisfied The greater torment Of love satisfied.” — T.S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday Can Catholics celebrate Valentine’s Day this year, considering that

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Columnists
Erin Cain

A Heart Contrite and Humbled

My sacrifice, O God, is a contrite spirit; a heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn. —Psalm 51:19 The disciples of John

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Life
Theresa Williams

Lessons from a Lent Past

Being in the thick of Lent, I’ve been reflecting on Lents past and how differently I approach Lent now. Lent the year I was sixteen

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Scripture
Fr. Joseph Gill

Of Things Unseen

Our first reading is such a great scene from the life of Abraham, but we often picture it wrongly. God promises him that he will

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