
“We wear ashes not to show how good we are, but to show how human we are.”
Lent: A Season for Christian Foolishness
Lent never seems to arrive on time.Whenever we’re ready for it, it seems to come too late in the calendar year, and when it arrives early, it seems we’ve just put the Christmas decorations away.With the arrival of Ash Wednesday this year, we’re faced again...
Lenten Series Part 2: A Meditation on Almsgiving
Three sisters share their reflections on making almsgiving more than clicking the donate button.
The Cross: Path to Resurrection
It was the path Jesus embarked upon and it is the path that we too must embrace as we enter into these final days of Lent.
Growing into Lent
Flickr: Fr Lawrence Lew, O.P. When we were in grammar school, no one would have called us well-behaved, especially during Stations of the Cross on Friday afternoons in Lent. But we were quiet as we timed the priest from station to station and silently cheered...
Ashes, a Reflection by Sister Debbie Blow
Flickr: Fr Lawrence Lew, O.P. Our palms from last Sunday are now behind us, a foreshadowing of the whisper we will hear once again next year, "You are dust, and to dust you shall return." However, during Holy Week, the message of ashes is more pertinent than ever....
Let Your Ashes Be a Reminder to You
Today, we bear ashes on our foreheads, given with the whisper, "You are dust, and to dust you shall return." On Ash Wednesday, the message of ashes is more pertinent than ever. Ashes are more than an Ash-Wednesday sign of our Christianity and our belief in a God who...
Relationship
Is this blessed and broken universe and all it contains, all it ever contained, the body of Christ? Even today?
Lenten Reflection: Something New
We all enjoy “something new:” a new friendship, the opportunity of a new job or ministry, a new home, a new discovery that can lead us in a new direction, the sense of new life after surgery or treatment for a life threatening illness. The prophet Isaiah invites us to...
One Sister’s Prayer through Poetry
Dominican Sister of Hope Connie Kelly, OP is a published poet who’s written over 250 poems and is currently working on publishing an anthology. Today, Sister Connie shares with us the history behind her creative genius, the inspiration behind...