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Christ’s question to us during Holy Week: “Do you love me?”
Much of Lent is focused on Baptism, where our love affair with the Triune God had its beginning. The baptismal font, however, leads inexorably to […]
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Holy Week: A biblical chronology and liturgical guide
“St. Athanasius calls Easter ‘the Great Sunday’ and the Eastern Churches call Holy Week ‘the Great Week.’ The mystery of the Resurrection, in which Christ […]
Carl’s Cuts
Carl’s Cuts: On Schmemann’s Lent, Billy Graham’s death, Madeleine L’Engle’s “Wrinkle”, and Cardinal Cupich’s column
Confessions, observations, and animadversions on this, that, and the other. […]
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Chesterton, St. Francis, and the bottomless pit of unfathomable thanks
How I learned that the best kind of prayer is thanksgiving, the best kind almsgiving is thanksgiving, and the best kind of abstinence is thanksgiving. […]
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Doubt and faith in a secular age
Some Lenten lessons in belief from Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Mother Teresa, and Flannery O’Connor. […]
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Fathers, Sons, and Sacrifices: On the Second Sunday of Lent
On the Readings for February 25, 2018, the Second Sunday of Lent […]
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Conscience and grace: A Lenten meditation
Christ promised to maintain his Church in the truth (John 8.32; John 16.3). Has that promise been broken? […]
Essay
Lent and the Lord’s question: “Who do you say that I am?”
We have no excuse for not knowing who Jesus is, nor of failing to understand the implications of the assertions we make about Him in […]
Essay
Diving into eternity
True knowledge of God can only be had in the midst of a life for which all work is undertaken based on prayer and all […]
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The First Sunday of Lent: Deluges and Deserts, Sin and Salvation
On the Readings for Sunday, February 18, 2018, the First Sunday of Lent […]