Each year, as Lent begins, I can’t help but remember a scene from Sunday Mass a few years back. A little boy sitting in the second pew with his grandmother ...
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As we move into the second half of the Lenten season, it's a good time to take stock of our promises and practices. So often we give up sweets or alcohol or ...
Back when I was younger, I would approach Ash Wednesday in spiritual attack mode. Armed with books and an overly ambitious plan, I entered the Lenten season ...
Lent is one of those seasons that begins with the best of intentions. We plan to pray more, eat less and find ways to make the season more sacred. But, too ...
We're just about at the midpoint of the Lenten season. For many of us, our Lenten plans and practices may be falling by the wayside. Maybe we're getting down on ...
We started out on this revolution-not-resolution journey of inner transformation at the beginning of the new year. The plan was to bring some new habits into ...
Flannery O’Connor, the American Catholic southern gothic writer,
once said, “I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.”
That line ...
The column originally ran on Huffington Post in 2015, but it's a favorite so here it is one more time, just in time:
Lent is one of those seasons that ...
Ash Wednesday is only four weeks away. I know if feels like we just got through Christmas, but, trust me, Lent will be here before you know it, and wouldn't it ...