Lent / Easter News

St. Ambrose: Hold fast to God, the one true good

By Saint Ambrose, bishop • Catholic Online • 2/3/2012

Let us live in Christ, let us ascend in Christ, so that the serpent may not have the power here below to wound us in the heel. CHESAPEAKE, Va. (Catholic Online) - From the treatise on Flight from the World by Saint Ambrose, bishop, Hold fast to God, the one true good. Where a man�s heart is, ...

St. Aelred: 'Christ, Model of brotherly love'

By Saint Aelred, abbot • Catholic Online • 2/2/2012

If he wishes to prevent this fire of divine love from growing cold because of injuries received, let him keep the eyes of his soul always fixed on the serene patience of his beloved Lord and Saviour. CHESAPEAKE, Va. Catholic Online) - Aelred was born in 1109 at Durham. After a quality education he ...

The Happy Priest on Getting Ready for Lent

By Father James Farfaglia • Catholic Online • 1/31/2012

Lent provides us an opportunity to open our personal maintenance schedule and take a close look at ourselves as we journey towards eternal life. CORPUS CHRISTI, TX (Catholic Online) - Every car or truck carries in the glove compartment a maintenance schedule. Having your oil changed, your tires ...

Fourteen Questions on the Paschal Triduum

Catholic Online • 1/30/2012

Each year, the Secretariat for Divine Worship receives numerous calls concerning preparations for the celebration of the Paschal Triduum. The following eighteen questions address the most commonly received questions and may be freely reproduced by Diocesan Offices for Worship, Parish Liturgy ...

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What are YOU doing for Lent?

By Marshall Connolly (Catholic Online) • Catholic Online • 1/24/2012

Lent is almost here prompting the question, "What are you giving up for lent?" This is a tough question for me. I'm a lay person, but working for Catholic Online, I get the question early. I also take the season seriously, so I want to make a thoughtful decision that is both realistic and that ...

He has been raised and the Light dispels the darkness

Pope's Easter Vigil Homily: We Celebrate the First Day of the New Creation

By Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Online • 4/25/2011

'The first day of the week was the third day after Jesus' death. It was the day when he showed himself to his disciples as the Risen Lord. In truth, this encounter had something unsettling about it. The world had changed. This man who had died was now living with a life that was no longer ...

Easter: We Have Been Raised with Christ. Easter is More Than a Day; it is a Way

By Deacon Keith Fournier • Catholic Online • 4/25/2011

Easter is more than a Day, it is a Way; A Way of living our lives differently now in Him. We are invited to do that by living them in His Church, which is His Body, for the sake of the world. That world created through Him out of love was lost due to sin. He came among us and began creation ...

Blessed John Paul II kissing the feet of the Crucified Christ

Wisdom from a Monk: Fr. Gregory on the Fullness of the Paschal Mystery

By Fr. Gregory Gresko, OSB • Catholic Online • 4/25/2011

If we celebrate this Easter Triduum with the gravity it deserves, we may find ourselves suspended in time. We discover ourselves in real time alongside Jesus in the Agony at the Garden, or witnessing His brutal scourging by the Roman soldiers, or perhaps next to the women of Jerusalem who ...

Holy Saturday: Stand in the Silence, Count the Hours until the New Fire

By Randy Sly • Catholic Online • 4/25/2011

For some, Holy Saturday may seem like a stark barrier between the awesomeness of Good Friday and the Glory of Easter. There is something to be said for silence as the Church waits. standing still. until the Vigil when the New Fire is kindled in the Service of Light. WASHINGTON (Catholic Online) - ...

Pope Benedict XVI breathing on the Holy Chrism as a sign of the Holy Spirit

Christians should make the living God visible to the world: Pope Benedict XVI, Chrism Mass

By Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Online • 4/25/2011

He opens our humanity for the gift of the Holy Spirit. The more we are united to Christ, the more we are filled with his Spirit, with the Holy Spirit. We are called "Christians": "anointed ones" - people who belong to Christ and hence have a share in his anointing, being touched by his Spirit. "I ...