Day Five: Barrenness (Sự Cằn Cỗi)-Monday of the First Week of Lent
Day Five: Barrenness Though Heaven is best symbolized by the most luscious and fruitful garden or a glorious city with streets paved in gold, the barrenness of the desert is…
"Tôi Khát" (Ga 9,28) Yêu Mến và Hiến Thân cho Sứ Mạng
Day Five: Barrenness Though Heaven is best symbolized by the most luscious and fruitful garden or a glorious city with streets paved in gold, the barrenness of the desert is…
First Sunday in Lent: Hunger One pronounced effect of fasting is hunger. Is it good to be hungry? All three Synoptic Gospels speak of Jesus being hungry after fasting in…
Today, we ponder the dryness of the desert. One symbolic lesson the desert teaches is that prayer and fasting do not always produce the emotional consolation of “rain” we might…
Day Three: Sacrifice Today we abstain from meat. It is such a small sacrifice. A sacrifice can be offered with reluctance and regret, or with joy and enthusiasm. The difference…
Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. John 19:25 Again, today, we look at this most…
Though Ash Wednesday is not a holy day of obligation, it is one of the most attended liturgical celebrations on our Church calendar. Perhaps this speaks to the desire in…