Feb 27, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Latest news, Sun February 23, 2017
All adults, from the completion of their 18th year to the beginning of their 60th year, are expected to fast. All who have completed their 14th year are bound by abstinence. All Fridays in the season of Lent are days of abstinence. Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are...
Feb 22, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Sun February 23, 2017
By Paul Senz | Catholic News Service We all recognize Lent as a time of sacrifice, a time to prepare ourselves for the commemoration of Jesus Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection. Traditionally, there are three pillars of this intensely spiritual and ascetic...
Feb 22, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Sun February 23, 2017
‘The King’s Men’ co-founder among speakers at OCC By Tom Maguire | Associate editor Mark Houck gives about 65 talks a year, spending up to four months away from his wife, his five children, and his home 45 minutes outside Philadelphia. Wherever he goes, he tries to...
Feb 22, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Sun February 23, 2017
By David Gibson | Catholic News Service Fasting is a paradox for Christians. It encompasses seemingly contradictory intentions. First, fasting appears to possess a negative quality. It asks us to do less of something — to eat less, to reduce the amount of our TV...
Feb 22, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Sun February 23, 2017
By Effie Caldarola | Catholic News Service “Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.” These words are from Scripture, in 1 Samuel, Chapter 3. The young boy Samuel, the future prophet, awakens the aged Eli because he thinks he has been called by him. But Eli...
Feb 22, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Sun February 23, 2017
By Paul Senz | Catholic News Service Our society is not one that readily embraces the idea of sacrifice. There is little recognition of the profound benefits of self-denial and of giving completely of oneself to others — and to God. All the more reason, then, for us...
Feb 22, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Sun February 23, 2017
By Matthew Gambino | Catholic News Service WYNNEWOOD, Pa. (CNS) — Catholic news media might be the remedy for three of the greatest challenges facing the church in the United States today, according to a leading Catholic journalist who spoke Jan. 30 at St....
