A Modest Proposal: Fast and Abstinence for all of Lent
The other day one of the messaging groups I’m part of was full of questions as to whether that day required partial or full abstinence and what the norms were outside of Ember Days...
Tagged: Lent
Corona: Our Opportunity for a Crown
In the last couple weeks I have found myself in the blessed position of still having access to sacraments, albeit in somewhat furtive conditions, but sacraments nevertheless. Only some weeks prior many of us...
Paradoxes of the Panic Pandemic – Reflections from Downunder
Our modern world has been very, very naughty, and now we find ourselves grounded, sent to stand in the corner, isolated, six feet away from everyone else lest we find ourselves “six feet under”...
Enjoy Eastertide, but don’t waste your Lent
Personal development, particularly stoicism, continues to grow in popularity in our ever more secular world, but many of those who engage in the newly popular “life hacks” of early rising, cold showers, meditation, and...
The Closing of Lent
Holy Week has arrived at long last. For True Restoration, it will mean a break from new radio releases through the Octave of Easter. We’ll resume with a brand new series for the month...
One Week
In Jesus Meets His Blessed Mother – The Family and the Cross, Finer Femininity shares a superb meditation for Holy Week from Joseph Breig. It eloquently illustrates the fact that we cannot comprehend Our...
Unwanted Items, Necessary Info
Continuing on our Lenten journey, Finer Femininity has a wonderful excerpt from Maria Von Trapp’s “Around the Year With the Trapp Family” in a post entitled Laetare Sunday to Palm Sunday – Maria Von...
Hopelessness, Suffering, Prayer
The accelerating and unrelenting parade of gadgets and technology with which the world is obsessed are most assuredly the biggest distraction mankind has ever seen. As the excerpt presented in Science and Hopelessness on...
H is for Home
Distributivism, Distributism, Agrarianism, Socialism, Capitalism: do you ever wish there was a simpler way to break all the “isms” down into a more comprehensible format than trying to wade through that daunting article filled...
“Why are Your Robes Red?”
The First Sunday of Lent from Catholic Harbor of Faith and Morals provides several resources of meditation on the Gospel of the first of the Sundays in Lent as we launch into the first...
