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“Lent comes providentially, to reawaken us, to shake us from our spiritual torpor…”

This year, 2021, we again begin a Lent marked by Covid. This past year has been filled with making adjustments to “the way we have always done things”. In the midst of a time fraught with upheaval and irregularity, the Church continues to journey with regularity through the liturgical year, a constant movement toward the Paschal Mysteries. This constancy of the liturgical year helps us to keep our perspective on… 

Shared Wisdom for an Unusual Lent

Lent 2020 is, on the one hand, turning out to be rather unusual. However, on the other hand, it calls all the more strongly for the annual revival of all the “standard” classic Lenten practices. We wish to share with you five insights from the religious life and monastic traditions which might be helpful in living well these days and weeks of COVID-19, a demanding time of our common history.… 

Ash Wednesday: “You are dust and unto dust you shall return”

Today the Church begins the Holy Season of Lent by which she “unites herself each year to the mystery of Jesus in the desert.” – Catechism of the Catholic Church, 540 “The seasons and days of penance in the course of the liturgical year (Lent, and each Friday in memory of the death of the Lord) are intense moments of the Church’s penitential practice. These times are particularly appropriate for spiritual exercises,… 

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