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Where Was Mary Assumed Into Heaven? – Msgr. Charles Pope at Our Sunday Visitor +1

Do We Get A Second Chance? – Fr. Joseph Gill at Ignitum Today +1

Live Perpetual Adoration Of The Blessed Sacrament Via Adorecast – Team Catholify

Wisdom is a Gift from God that has Two Precursors – Gene Van Son at Catholic Stand

The Three Fountains: When Water Miraculously Sprung Up at Saint Paul’s Execution – Billy Ryan at uCatholic

Adoration Undoes the Sentimentality of Advertising (& Weak Religion) – Jason Craig at Catholic Exchange

Benedictine Monks on Incense: Sourcing It & Making It – Peter A. Kwasniewski, Ph.D., at New Liturgical Movement

How Incense Can Improve Your Prayer Life – Philip Kosloski at Aleteia

Lent for the Kids – Amy Welborn at Charlotte Was Both

Toby Cook Explains How Baseball Led Him to Catholicism – The Coming Home Network International

5 Graces Praying the Rosary Daily Gave My Family: Family Prays Together Stays Together – Bridget Costello at ChurchPOP

Seven Sisters Apostolate Marks Ten Years of Praying for Priests – Jim Graves at The Catholic World Report

Lent: A Time to Unite Body & Soul to Christ – Constance T. Hull at Catholic Exchange

Gunmen Kill 24 Christians in Burkina Faso as Attacks Against Christians Increase – Mary Margaret Olohan at The Stream

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Palestinian Christians celebrate Easter Sunday Mass at Holy Family Church in Gaza City on March 31, amid the ongoing battles Israel and the Hamas militant group.

People Explain ‘Why I Go to Mass’

‘Why go to Mass on Sundays? It is not enough to answer that it is a precept of the Church. … We Christians need to participate in Sunday Mass because only with the grace of Jesus, with his living presence in us and among us, can we put into practice his commandment, and thus be his credible witnesses.’ —Pope Francis