| Catholic Culture : Library : Why We Need Lent [del.icio.us] Posted: 09 Mar 2011 03:15 PM PST Why we need lent, an excellent read from a modern day man that has a mastery of language and knowledge. Lent isn't about dieting or eating good seafood, it is about santification.  |
| Atheist Convert: Jeff Miller [del.icio.us] Posted: 09 Mar 2011 03:04 PM PST The reason for the season of lent. A time of calling to conversion for all of us. We are strengthened for these 40 days so that we can prepare for temptation by learning to deal with it through self-sacrifice and denial of passions that are sanctified to give glory to God. This is the story of the Curt Jester, a famous Catholic blogger and former atheist.  |
| Courageous Coptic Orthodox Christians in Egypt say 'Give us Back our Church' - International - Catholic Online [del.icio.us] Posted: 09 Mar 2011 03:00 PM PST Something you probably haven't heard in the mainstream news about freedom in the new Egypt. Prayers for our eastern brethren, both separated and in union.  |
| Hundreds of Anglicans start move to Catholic church on Ash Wednesday - Winnipeg Free Press [del.icio.us] Posted: 09 Mar 2011 02:56 PM PST The Pope of Christian unity is doing much work. Welcome home. I imagine that Sts. Thomas More, Edmund Campion and Blessed John Henry Newman have played a hand in this. This lent is special for them as these people and many others come home to the Universal Church. For those of us already in the Church we must remember that this is a time of deepening our own personal conversion through prayer and fasting.  |
