Lent
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The Holy Father's universal prayer intention for February is: “That we may take good care of creation – a gift freely given – cultivating and protecting it for future generations”. His intention for evangelisation is: “That opportunities may increase for dialogue and encounter between the Christian faith and the peoples of Asia”. (via Vatican Information…
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As I've said here more than once, I'm among those who have some reservations about Pope Francis. I'm not so sure about his governance of the Church, but I think he's an excellent pastor in many ways. As I've probably also said, it would probably be great to have him as a parish priest. Partly as…
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Between God and the individual soul…there are no insignificant moments. —Fr. Walter J. Ciszek, S.J. Tomorrow is Holy Thursday, and I probably won't be posting again until Sunday.
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Somewhere between ten and fifteen years ago, my wife and I acquired a cat named Milo. He came to us by way of one of our sons, who had adopted the cat toward the end of his time in college, and named him Milo after the boy in The Phantom Tollbooth. Our son then took a…
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I went into Lent as usual, like a dog running on a hardwood floor and trying to make a sudden turn–feet slipping wildly, head making the turn while the rest of the body swings out, trying to continue in the original direction. I have managed to sustain a couple of disciplines, so it hasn't been…
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Every Lent, when I get to about the 4th Sunday, I think it really should be over, and the remaining weeks seem impossibly long. It's ridiculous, because I'm not making any great sacrifices. I'm not very good at all at self-denial. But now we're at the 5th Sunday, and Holy Week never seems like exactly…
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That's meant to be provocative, and I haven't done exactly that, or done it altogether. What I have done, though, is to stop the particular set of prayers that form almost the entirety of my formal prayer life outside of the Liturgy and an hour of adoration every week. I say these prayers on the…
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Settled definitively by Erin Manning, maybe?
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(I have an uneasy feeling that I may have written more or less this post before, but a quick look around hasn't found it. ) Some years Lent gets off to a better start than others for me. This year I was going to make a real effort to start thinking about it well before…
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I'm going to do my best to stay completely off the net from now (Thursday evening) till Sunday. I wish and pray for a blessed Easter for everyone, especially those who don't believe. I would like to leave you with some serious message, if only a quotation from someone else, but I'm distracted and hurried halfway…
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