Three Great Lenten Themes
COMMENTARY: Pondering the annual catechumenate, our ‘adventure of God’ and deepening of friendship with Christ can prepare us for Easter’s glory.
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Facing Death This Lent: What St. Francis of Assisi and My 6-Year-Old Taught Me About Memento Mori
A Saturday morning lesson in mortality...
How You Can Live a ‘Monk Mindset’: App Brings the Monastic Tradition to the Laity This Lent
‘It’s a curriculum that will be forming you all around instead of overemphasizing one muscle in your human spiritual formation,’ says one user.
Vatican Spiritual Exercises: Christian Freedom and the Splendor of Truth
In the fourth and fifth meditations offered to Pope Leo XIV and the Roman Curia, Bishop Erik Varden reflected on how the modern debate over “freedom” challenges Christians.
This Is Pope Francis’ Message for Lent 2025
The season of Lent will begin on Ash Wednesday, March 5.
Pray for Those Who Left the Faith as You Walk the Stations of the Cross
COMMENTARY: While the grace of the Stations of the Cross are for us, they aren’t meant to be only for us.
What Should a Lenten Homily Be Like? God Told a Saint
The churches where St. Angelo went to preach were always full, and he obtained many conversions.
Lent at the Heart of the Church: The Roman Stational Liturgy
Praying at the tombs and places of martyrdom of the saints and martyrs of the early Church throughout Rome truly ‘brings us into a real, living, breathing relationship with the Church through her saints.’
Lenten Literary Companions
COMMENTARY: These companions along the 40-day journey can help us live Catholic traditional practices more intensely.
