Lent is a time for prayer more than ever. There are many beautiful expressions of our prayer during Lent. Certainly the devotion of the Stations of the Cross is excellent to draw us into a meditative closeness with Jesus, Who suffered and died for us to be free. It more than worthwhile to spend time with these crucial events in salvation history. However, some just come and recite the prayers out of the book; I would encourage you all to do something a little more involved

This word is seemingly not brought up much anymore. It’s not common in our daily, weekly, monthly, and maybe even yearly vocabulary. Some of us might not even claim to have a good working definition of it. Others may offer up that it means giving money to the poor. In truth, this word, this concept is so very much more. First, why talk about it at all? The Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us in 1434 that, along with prayer and fasting, almsgiving is insisted upon b

Lent is a time for preparation before the Passion and Resurrection, similar to our preparation of Advent before Christmas. Whereas Advent is a season of jubilant expectation, Lent takes on a more somber preparation as we ready ourselves to follow Christ on the Way of the Cross to Golgatha. Chocolate, coffee, TV? When we think about giving something up for the 40 days, sometimes we think of something like coke. There's nothing particularly wrong with this, however what have