“Sackcloth and ashes” is a familiar phrase, arising from a medieval custom of humbling oneself in public before God or the Church community to beg forgiveness. But dust or ashes go even further back as sign of penitance and mourning to the time of Moses and the Old Testament.
Within Christian churches today, the custom continues [...]
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The First Day of Lent:
In the Roman Catholic Church, Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, the season of preparation for the resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday. (In Eastern Rite Catholic churches, Lent begins two days earlier, on Clean Monday.)
While Ash Wednesday is not a Holy Day of Obligation, all Roman Catholics are encouraged to [...]
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What more could you do to bring reconciliation to our world, even in a small way?
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“a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands.”
(Rev 7:9).
During the Lenten season we commemorate two Saints special to the congregation: Patrick and Joseph.
In life they endured hardship, dreamt, [...]
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How do you separate the holy and the secular? How could you increase the holiness of the secular?
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Where is the need for transfiguration in your life?
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Daily Prayer Quotable Catholics
