The Cross Demands an Answer: Where Do You Stand?
COMMENTARY: During Holy Week, the Passion confronts each of us with a question no one can evade: Will we stand with Christ at the Cross — or turn away from its costly love?
Results from Tag: 'lent'
Holiness Is the Best Defense of the Faith
COMMENTARY: In Lent and Holy Week, we are reminded that arguments alone cannot overcome misunderstanding — only the light of holiness can dispel the shadows.
Making a Fruitful Lent Blossom All Year
As good Lenten practices build our Christian life, why stop them once Easter arrives?
The Path Through Lent Is Deeper, Living Prayer
In Lent’s middle stretch, when prayer can falter, the saints call us back to deeper communion with the God who dwells within us.
St. Gregory of Nazianzus Warns: Don’t Think Too Highly of Yourself
COMMENTARY: Through Lent, we enact in a personal way our fundamental equality in the Church and learn something about our own sins and failings.
Lenten Viewing on EWTN
Watch reflections, plus feast-day programs about Sts. Patrick and Joseph.
Jesus Gives Us Springs of Living Water
In the end, the Samaritan woman is amazed at Jesus’ capacity to answer her deepest questions and free her from worldly pains and sorrows. How about you?
What Catholics Are Reading This Lent
The Register asked Catholic writers, thinkers and religious, ‘What books would you recommend?’
Pope Leo XIV Reflects on Lenten Exercises, Citing St. Paul’s Call to Live ‘in a Manner Worthy of the Gospel of Christ’
Bishop Erik Varden closed a weeklong retreat for the Roman Curia with meditations on the cross and hope.
Lenten Traditions You Should Know From Europe and Africa
The global reality of the Church translates into a variety of Lenten practices. Read on to learn about more traditions that the Register discovered.
