This Lent, it’s not too late to choose to offer some small, painful sacrifice to Christ. Unite it to His Passion and sanctify your little suffering, particularly as we head into Holy Week. … Continue readingOffer It Up! The Sanctification of Suffering
What better way to enter into this penitential season than to comb through our newest list of Lenten resources – along with taking a peek at our previous lists dating back to 2013? … Continue readingThe 2019 Handy Dandy List of Lenten Resources
God’s perfect original plan did not include all of this suffering. In the same way, His original plan did not include sending His Son to suffer and die. Temptation and human weakness altered His perfect plan, but He reached down with the gift of meritorious suffering to give us a second chance. … Continue readingUniting to Christ’s Life-Giving Suffering
How I gave up nothing, took on nothing…and left everything to the Lord. My Plan for an All-Star Lent It was Lent 2014. I was a college junior, diving into my faith after my “reversion” (I’m a cradle Catholic, but my faith was rekindled … Continue readingThe Year I Did NOTHING For Lent
We are living in dark, perilous times – no darker and no more perilous than the times preceding today’s society. However, as our society seems to descend into moral relativism, eschewing the notion in natural truth and law, many of us holding on to the … Continue readingContemplating Eternity: The Encouragement of Our Lady of Fatima