When you listened to some older Catholics talk about the spirituality that formed them, you hear a lot about a harsh, demanding, and rather unforgiving...
Lent
Lent is a good time to call time-out on our First World feeding frenzy. "Eat the world” is the slogan of the food court at a high-end Magnificent...
It must have been about the time I was chopping up the melon for my one-and-a-half-year-old daughter's breakfast that the angst set in. Here it was Good...
“The 40 days of Lent” has always been more of a metaphor than a literal count. Over the course of history the season of preparation for Easter...
I’m coming to believe that the ultimate goal of this conversion is not to muscle our way to changed behaviors, but rather to loosen up enough to change...
Ever wish you had your own personal spiritual trainer? For Lent we offer you 40 of them. 1. Henri J. M. Nouwen: An Ash Wednesday prayer 2. Joyce Rupp: Focus on...
A first-time mom sees Easter anew through the eyes of her infant son. For Lent last year, I gave up Easter. To be more precise, I gave up the Easter and Holy...
By Alicia Marsland This article appeared in the March 1985 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 50, No. 3, pages 30-31). It is a reprint from Bringing Religion Home...
By Ken Maafe This article appeared in the March 1984 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 49, No. 3, pages 12-13). My father had an enduring love for the church and a...
