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About.com Religion Spirituality Catholicism Catholicism Search Catholicism Basics Seasons and Holidays Catholic Prayers Share Free Catholicism Newsletter Sign Up Discuss in my forum Praying Our Way Through Lent By Scott P . Richert About.com Guide March 31, 2012 My Bio Headlines Forum RSS Follow me : on Facebook Twitter See More : About lent fasting prayer catholic prayers holy week Over the past several weeks , most Catholics have probably sung These 40 Days of Lent at least once . This beautiful hymn compares our Lenten fast to Jesus' 40 days of fasting and prayer in the desert at the beginning of his ministry Matthew 4:1-11 Mark 1:12-15 Luke 4:1-13 Most of us are pretty good at the fasting part--we give up something for Lent and we generally stick to it . But fasting and prayer go hand
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About.com Religion Spirituality Catholicism Catholicism Search Catholicism Basics Seasons and Holidays Catholic Prayers Share Free Catholicism Newsletter Sign Up Discuss in my forum Best Catholic Media Winners Announced in the 2012 About.com Catholicism Readers' Choice Awards By Scott P . Richert About.com Guide March 30, 2012 My Bio Headlines Forum RSS Follow me : on Facebook Twitter See More : About catholic books catholic blogs social media ios apps readers' choice awards Two and a half months ago , nominations opened in the 2012 About.com Catholicism Readers' Choice Awards When nominations closed four weeks later , over 1,200 nominations had been made across all ten categories . From those , readers chose five finalists in each category , and a little over five weeks ago , voting .
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: About.com Religion Spirituality Catholicism Catholicism Search Catholicism Basics Seasons and Holidays Catholic Prayers Share Free Catholicism Newsletter Sign Up Discuss in my forum Lent Recipes : Mexican Food By Scott P . Richert About.com Guide March 30, 2012 My Bio Headlines Forum RSS Follow me : on Facebook Twitter See More : About lent recipes mexican food abstinence fasting lent As Lent draws to a close , our Lenten abstinence does as . well We have only two more Fridays today and Good Friday before Easter 2012 But if you have enjoyed the Lent recipes that I have featured here over the past several weeks , why not use them throughout the year , to fulfill your obligation to practice a form of penance on Fridays For today's Lent recipes , we leave Europe , but we don't leave the Old
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: About.com Religion Spirituality Catholicism Catholicism Search Catholicism Basics Seasons and Holidays Catholic Prayers Share Free Catholicism Newsletter Sign Up Discuss in my forum Almost Wordless Wednesday : Dashed Upon the Rocks By Scott P . Richert About.com Guide March 28, 2012 My Bio Headlines Forum RSS Follow me : on Facebook Twitter See More : About sin the sacraments confession communion wordless wednesday Photo Scott P . Richert In 2004, my family and I took the Lake Michigan Circle Tour 2,200 miles in 12 days , camping all the way . Having grown up on Lake Michigan , I've always been aware of the beauty of the lake , but the danger it represents was never more clear to me than when we stopped at lighthouse after lighthouse , erected to keep ships away from the rocks , and to
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: About.com Religion Spirituality Catholicism Catholicism Search Catholicism Basics Seasons and Holidays Catholic Prayers Share Free Catholicism Newsletter Sign Up Discuss in my forum Thought of the Day : Our Neighbor's Reputation By Scott P . Richert About.com Guide March 27, 2012 My Bio Headlines Forum RSS Follow me : on Facebook Twitter See More : About thought of the day lent detraction gossiping calumny Every year , many people give up gossiping for Lent or at least they try . Gossiping and backbiting detraction or the revealing of another person's secret faults , as opposed to calumny which is lying is one of the most common of sins . It is also one of the most deadly , because it destroys the natural bonds that we should have to our fellow . man There's an excellent pamphlet called
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: About.com Religion Spirituality Catholicism Catholicism Search Catholicism Basics Seasons and Holidays Catholic Prayers Share Free Catholicism Newsletter Sign Up Discuss in my forum Novena of the Week : Offering of Oneself to Christ in the Eucharist By Scott P . Richert About.com Guide March 27, 2012 My Bio Headlines Forum RSS Follow me : on Facebook Twitter See More : About the eucharist holy communion holy thursday john henry newman novenas Holy Thursday or Maundy Thursday the day on which we celebrate the institution of the Mass the priesthood and the Sacrament of Holy Communion is just nine days . away So it seems appropriate to commemorate the Eucharist in our novena of the week . I've chosen a very moving prayer by Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman at whose beatification Pope
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: About.com Religion Spirituality Catholicism Catholicism Search Catholicism Basics Seasons and Holidays Catholic Prayers Share Free Catholicism Newsletter Sign Up Discuss in my forum The Fifth Week of Lent : Passiontide By Scott P . Richert About.com Guide March 25, 2012 My Bio Headlines Forum RSS Follow me : on Facebook Twitter See More : About holy thursday palm sunday spiritual reading lent catholic calendar Easter 2012 is only two weeks away . Until the introduction of the new liturgical calendar in 1969, these final two weeks of Lent were known as Passiontide and they commemorated the increasing revelation of Christ's divinity , as well as His movement toward Jerusalem , which He enters on Palm Sunday and where His Passion will take place starting on the night of Holy Thursday Even
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: About.com Religion Spirituality Catholicism Catholicism Search Catholicism Basics Seasons and Holidays Catholic Prayers Share Free Catholicism Newsletter Sign Up Discuss in my forum Lent Recipes : Low-Carb Foods for Lent By Scott P . Richert About.com Guide March 23, 2012 My Bio Headlines Forum RSS Follow me : on Facebook Twitter See More : About lent recipes low-carb recipes abstinence fasting lent Many of the staple foods of Lent are chock full of carbohydrates pasta , bread , . potatoes Abstinence from meat can present a real challenge to those myself included who find that more carbs equals more weight . While the point of our Lenten fasting is different from dieting , it still seems a bit odd to end Lent a few pounds heavier than when we . started That's where Laura Dolson , the
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: About.com Religion Spirituality Catholicism Catholicism Search Catholicism Basics Seasons and Holidays Catholic Prayers Share Free Catholicism Newsletter Sign Up Discuss in my forum Thought of the Day : The Solitary Life By Scott P . Richert About.com Guide March 23, 2012 My Bio Headlines Forum RSS Follow me : on Facebook Twitter See More : About thought of the day lent eastern catholicism john climacus eastern orthodoxy In Thought of the Day : Detachment we looked at the true nature of Christian detachment , which turns out to be an attachment to God . Today , in this short passage from St . John Climacus' great spiritual work The Ladder of Divine Ascent read every Lent by many Eastern Catholics and Eastern Orthodox we receive some sound advice on how those of us who are in the world
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About.com Religion Spirituality Catholicism Catholicism Search Catholicism Basics Seasons and Holidays Catholic Prayers Share Free Catholicism Newsletter Sign Up Discuss in my forum Pope Benedict Makes Three Interesting Appointments By Scott P . Richert About.com Guide March 21, 2012 My Bio Headlines Forum RSS Follow me : on Facebook Twitter See More : About pope benedict xvi bishops artificial birth control barack obama March 20, 2012, was a banner day for the Catholic Church in the United States , as Pope Benedict XVI made three important episcopal . appointments The first , and most prestigious , was the appointment of Bishop William E . Lori of the Diocese of Bridgeport , Connecticut , as archbishop of Baltimore . Baltimore is the primatial see of the Catholic Church in the United
