When Lent Goes Wrong
Maybe the thing God most wants me to give up is my pride. We are ten days into Lent and I’ve...
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Tag: Lent
How to Celebrate Easter in the Middle of a Lockdown
If we ever needed Easter, it’s now. As you read this, you’re probably under some sort of shelter-in-place order in the midst of the Great COVID-19 Lockdown of 2020. You’ve probably been home for a few weeks at this point,...
Read MoreA Practical Way to Get in Touch with God
What do technology and stillness have to do with God? What is the point of Lent? It’s simple: to know and love God more on Easter morning than we do today. (Fr. Mike Schmitz first said this in one of his homilies.) If you’re...
Read MoreLent is About Love
What if Lent was more about love and less about extremes? Years ago, in a podcast or a video (I forget which), Fr. Mike Schmitz once made the purpose of Lent crystal clear: whatever we give up, whatever we add, if we don’t know...
Read MoreInto the Desert
Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, which remembers the 40 days and nights Jesus went into the desert to fast and pray before he officially began his public ministry. It’s a time for us to fast and pray, like Jesus...
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