Annoyances
“Don’t be angry with someone for every little thing he does wrong. Don’t do anything out of injured pride.” Sirach 10: 6 It’s the little annoying things…
Faith Library
Category: Lent
Articles for Ash Wednesday through the days before the Triduum.
The ABC’s of Lent
Accept the season Break the chains that hold you from Christ Cut out what is not necessary in your life Draw close to Jesus Embrace the Cross Fast…
The Transfiguration and The Cross
Sunday Readings for Feb 21, 2016 the 2nd Sunday in Lent Appearances can be deceiving. After all, Jesus was just another Galilean. His hands were the rough hands…
Here I Am, Send Me, Next Week, Maybe
“Here I am, “I said. “Send me.” (Isaiah 6:8) Lent is upon us and Advent is but a memory. The story of Jesus’s thirty three years has…
God Loves a Cheerful Giver
We are now in the season of Lent. As we all know it is a time of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. If you are anything like me, Lent…
Why is Lent Forty Days?
Sunday Readings for Feb 14, 2016, the First Sunday in Lent In the English language, the special season before Easter is called “Lent.” The word comes from the…
Father Forgive Them
This marks my last of five Biblical meditations on the Sorrowful Mysteries and 40 Days for Life, using Rosary Army’s Scriptural Rosary. In the Fifth Sorrowful Mystery meditation,…
Fasting
One of the things the church asks us to do in lent is fasting. But why? Does Jesus really want us to go hungry? The truth is, it…
Just Leave me God
I want to climb in a hole. I am uttering every profanity known to the universe – sick of it all. Pushing people away is so easy. Isolating…
Lent: Experiencing the Season Through Our Five Senses
As a mom, I try hard to make spiritual experiences as tangible as possible for my children. I do not want them to think of God as…