Steady as she goes: First Sunday of Lent
It’s after Mass and I’m making breakfast. Even though no one is around and as the sausage begins to fry in the pan, I look behind me guiltily. Yes, it’s called the First Sunday...
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Be not as the Hypocrites: leaning into Lent
Morning: Espresso. Croissant. Afternoon: Cafe au lait. Evening: I sat in the pew driving out the thoughts of the day. Trying to get focused and quiet in my mind. My fellow Christians are on...
Three things I remembered this Lent
In one of my businesses, I write and ghostwrite content for small businesses. In that part of my life I have to engage in a practice that I despise as a writer but reluctantly...
Sunday Edition *Updated*
A previous edition of this post stated that the fast and abstinence rules do not apply on the Feast of the Incarnation and on Maundy Thursday. After a question from a reader and further...
Lent and the Spirit of Sacrifice
Ed: As it is normative to have priests, not laypeople, discussing the importance of Lent, I commissioned Fr. McKenna to do an article for TR. I present this to you at the beginning of...
The Tears I Laid Before His Shrine
St. Alexander The Catholic Gentleman continues its Lent preparation series with a post on prayer, which explains how to pray in five manageable steps. Fasting in a way that is pleasing to God is...
