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Easter / Lent News

Holy Saturday: 'Make Sure He's Dead' Watch

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Just as the Chief Priests and Pharisees gathered with Pilate to plan on keeping the tomb sealed and guarded with Christ inside, many today ... continue reading


HOLY SATURDAY: The Whole Earth Keeps Silence Watch

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Something strange is happening - there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence ... continue reading



FRIDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD (3 PM CST) Watch

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The video for FRIDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD will be available at 3 pm (CST).  Dear Friends of Your Catholic Voice, Catholic Online ... continue reading


The Happy Priest: Good Friday and the Sufferings of Mary Watch

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The Mother standing at the foot of the Cross seems absurd and incomprehensible.  How could the Father permit such suffering?Stabat ... continue reading


Holy Thursday of the Lord's Supper (7 pm CST) Watch

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The video for Holy Thursday of the Lord's Supper will be live at 7 pm (CST)  Dear Friends of Your Catholic Voice, Catholic Online and ... continue reading


Facing Palm Sunday With Dread and Joyful Anticipation

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In a crazy world, a holy time like Lent can zip by like the rest of the year. Author Alex Basile ponders if he is ready for the most sacred ... continue reading



3rd Sunday of Lent: A Whole World Thirsting for Living Water

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Each day we pass many who, like the woman of Samaria, decorate time. Their lives may look adorned and abundant, but this is merely a ... continue reading


Wholly Fire and Light: Clean Week, Lent and Living the Transfiguration Watch

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The Christian vocation is "participation in the Divine Nature." (2 Peter 1:4). We are transfigured in Christ as we ... continue reading


Seven Deadly Sins: Lust

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Lust offers a beguiling counterfeit, a way to have the illusion of "love" without the surrender of real love. WICHITA, Kansas (Catholic ... continue reading


On Fasting, Refreshing the Routine and Living Lent Watch

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Ash Wednesday began us on a forty day pilgrimage. We began with cleansing the soul, the mind, and - let us not forget - the body. All three ... continue reading



More Lent & Easter

Easter 2024 / Lent 2024

Begins on Wednesday February 14, 2024

Ends on Thursday March 28, 2024

'So it is written that the Christ would suffer and on the third day rise from the dead'
Luke 24:46

Lent Event

Importance

Stations of the Cross

Every Friday

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Living Lent

February 14, 2024 - March 28, 2024

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Mardi Gras / Fat Tuesday

February 13, 2024

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Ash Wednesday

February 14, 2024

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Palm Sunday

March 24, 2024

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Holy Week

March 24 - 30, 2024

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Good Friday

March 29, 2024

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Easter Sunday

March 31, 2024

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Ascension of Our Lord

Thursday May 9, 2024

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Pentecost

Sunday May 19, 2024

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Fasting and Abstinence

Every Friday

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Easter / Lent News

Where do the palms for Palm Sunday come from? Watch

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With Palm Sunday right around the corner, Catholics across the globe will soon be handed leaves as they walk into church. Some might fold ... continue reading


When Did We See You Hungry? Lent and the Love of Preference for the Poor Watch

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The option or love of preference for the poor. This is an option or a special form of primacy in the exercise of Christian charity to ... continue reading


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Ask Dr. Denton: It's Lent. Can You Explain the Effects of Fasting? Watch

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Fasting gives us, body and soul, a spring cleaning. PORTSMOUTH, VA. (Catholic Online) - Dear Dr Denton: As the Lenten season unfolds, can ... continue reading


Lenten Reflection: A Barren Heart, God is in the Desert

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Though I hate the desert, may I wait for Him there. Whether He speaks or not, I will pray. If I feel nothing at all, I will praise Him. ... continue reading


It's Lent - an 'Outward Bound' for the Soul Watch

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By the 1960's a movement of outdoor education and character formation called Outward Bound began transforming lives through exposure to ... continue reading


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