St. Joseph and Blossoming of Faith
by Tom and April Hoopes in Faith on Saturday, March 13, 2010 6:00 AM
(In this weekly column, Tom and April Hoopes share family-friendly ways of observing the liturgical year and celebrating the Sunday readings.)
Sunday, March 14 (Year C, Cycle II), is the Fourth Sunday of Lent: Laetare Sunday.
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Laetare (Rejoice) Sunday is the day that — since we have passed the halfway point of Lent — the Church looks forward to the joy of Easter. It’s called “Rose Sunday” for two reasons. First, priests may wear rose-colored (practically pink) vestments today. Second, it’s... READ MORE
Waiting for Sunshine
by Heidi Bratton in Faith on Friday, March 12, 2010 6:00 AM
As a photographer by profession and by nature, I am constantly aware of sunlight. Watching sunlight move through the day, arranging itself around objects and landscapes in ever-changing ways, is a constant source of joy and hope for me. It is, perhaps, for this reason that enduring the winter months when the sun gets up late and goes to bed early can be a challenge. As early as four o’clock in the afternoon, while there is still much to be done in my day, the beauty of twilight is snuffed out by... READ MORE
Newt Gingrich Makes a Move
by Tim Drake in News on Thursday, March 11, 2010 6:00 AM
(Faith & Family likes to focus on what celebrities get right. The prominent people we highlight in our My Faith & Family features may not have always been Catholic role models, but they acknowledge the debt they owe to their families and to the Catholic faith.)
The pivotal moment in the Catholic conversion of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich may have occurred during Pope Benedict XVI’s 2008 Apostolic Visit to the U.S., but the seeds of faith were planted long before, during Gingrich’s childhood.... READ MORE
Giving Up the World
by Catherine Rose in Family on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 6:00 AM
I had plans, good ones. The world was a mess, I was 25 years old, and I was going to help fix it.
I had seen much of the world, through travels in Honduras, India, and Bosnia, and wanted to pour myself out to ease the pain that I saw on so many faces. It seemed to me that I needed a graduate degree for this work, so that I would have the credentials to organize large-scale efforts to bring Christ and His healing to a world so full of despair.
(You are allowed to chuckle at my hubris. I certainly... READ MORE
Surrender the Choosing
by Marion Fernandez-Cueto in Faith on Tuesday, March 09, 2010 6:00 AM
Lent began for our family last June. That’s when rumors of a third round of layoffs started circling at my husband’s company, which had already bled jobs for a year. We tightened our careful budget yet again, decided that chairs for our new house could wait. So could a desk and a piano. And blinds. And a TV. When the axe finally fell two weeks before Christmas, delayed gratification was getting old.
By February, it was spreading to necessities. When a friend asked me what I was giving up for Lent,... READ MORE
Spending Lent With Mary
by Sarah Reinhard in Faith on Monday, March 08, 2010 6:00 AM
Lent began, for me, in an unfamiliar house, face-to-face with a woman who is living my nightmare.
On Epiphany this year, my sister-in-law faced a horror I can’t imagine, one that tops her list of sorrows and that has changed my prayer life forever.
When her husband, my brother-in-law, died suddenly and unexpectedly, it felt like Lent had already begun. In fact, it felt a lot like Good Friday, stretched out over weeks.
And then I went to Mardi Gras, that grand celebration before the official start... READ MORE
A Week of Family Days
by Tom and April Hoopes in Faith on Saturday, March 06, 2010 6:00 AM
(In this weekly column, Tom and April Hoopes share family-friendly ways of observing the liturgical year and celebrating the Sunday readings.)
Sunday, March 7, is the Third Sunday in Lent (Year C, Cycle II).
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Pope Benedict XVI is not just the bishop of the whole Church — he’s the bishop of Rome, and on March 7 he won’t be celebrating 9am Mass at St. Peter’s; he’ll be at St. John of the Cross parish in Rome.
You can share with your family all the titles the Pope has, according to the Vatican... READ MORE
Make a Better Confession
by Eddie O'Neil in Faith on Friday, March 05, 2010 6:00 AM
Lent has begun. It’s the time to fast, pray and give alms. These 40 days are also a good opportunity to better understand the sacrament of reconciliation.
The key to making a good confession is knowing oneself, says Chicago’s Father Peter Armenio, a priest of Opus Dei. “Self-knowledge is the building block for contrition. I can’t be sorry unless I know myself,” says the priest who spends long hours each week hearing confessions.
He explains that honesty and the Holy Spirit will help us come to know... READ MORE
What Faith Looks Like
by Pat Gohn in Faith on Thursday, March 04, 2010 6:00 AM
If I were describing my daughter’s characteristics, I’d say she’s a blue-eyed blond in Birkenstocks. We tend to see the characteristics of each person as unique to them. Yet, as members of the human race, we share universal features. The same holds true of faith.
While each believer experiences faith in a personal way, the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) describes characteristics of faith common to all believers.
First, faith is both a grace and a free human act, having both divine and human... READ MORE
How To Get Over It
by Simcha Fisher in Faith on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 5:59 AM
Someone hurt you. Someone did something awful, and you didn’t deserve it at all.
Eventually, he apologized, stopped doing the thing that hurt so badly, and moved on with his life.
But you’re still hurt. You pray for the grace to be forgiving; you argue with yourself that moving on is healthy; and you chide yourself for dwelling in the past.
But it still hurts. Every time you’re tired or discouraged, the whole force of that old injury comes slamming back, and suddenly you’re back in victim mode: ... READ MORE
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