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What is the difference between Lent fasting and abstinence?
What is the difference between Lent fasting and abstinence?
By Amelia Monroe Carlson
We often hear the words "abstinence" and "fasting" used interchangeably during Lent. They are not the same. Here is your guide to the "how" and "why" of fasting and abstinence.
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The Day of Ashes
The Day of Ashes
By Geoffrey Lopes da Silva
"The day of ashes and the beginning of the most holy fast of Lent."
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St. Valentine's Day Prepares Us to Love
St. Valentine's Day Prepares Us to Love
By Sarah J. Pedrozo
With the right perspective, St. Valentine's Day can prepare us for Lent.
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Single Awareness Day
Single Awareness Day
By The Catholic Philadelphian
To all singles out there, please know that God loves you. He is writing your love story. All it takes is placing your trust in him.
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DO MORE; NOT LESS DURING LENT
DO MORE; NOT LESS DURING LENT
By The Catholic Philadelphian
Lent is closer than you think. Don't worry, here's a guide for those who have a hard time giving up something.
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A Temporary Farewell to Alleluia
A Temporary Farewell to Alleluia
By Geoffrey Lopes da Silva
The temporary farewell to alleluia during the season of Lent.
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Let Tradition and Community Catholicism Rekindle Your Faith this Candlemas
Let Tradition and Community Catholicism Rekindle Your Faith this Candlemas
By Cole Kinder
Candlemas is a time for wonder and awe just as the Baby Jesus wondered and awed at the temple when He was presented over 2,000 years ago. We must use our traditions and community to believe in this wonder, to believe in Jesus's reality.
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Teen Book Review: Ashes: Visible & Invisible
Teen Book Review: Ashes: Visible & Invisible
By Leslea Wahl
Article about CatholicTeenBooks newest anthology for Lent, Ashes: Visible & Invisible
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The Only Festival of the Church I Keep is Septuagesima
The Only Festival of the Church I Keep is Septuagesima
By Geoffrey Lopes da Silva
A brief history of the pre-Lenten season of Septuagesima.
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Fourth Decade
Fourth Decade
By Nathaniel Slattery
These are fictive meditations on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary. This fourth is the Presentation, where Our Lady presents Our Lord at the temple and redeems Him forty days after the Nativity.
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What's in a Name?
What's in a Name?
By Sarah J. Pedrozo
Do names mean anything, or can they be changed?
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Announcement of Easter and the Movable Feasts
Announcement of Easter and the Movable Feasts
By The Catholic Philadelphian
Announcement of Easter and the Movable Feasts as proclaimed during the last Sunday of the Christmas season. Consider it a "In case you missed it moment"
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Rorate Meditation
Rorate Meditation
By Nathaniel Slattery
This is a meditation and prayer which I wrote after a Rorate Caeli mass. In the Rorate Caeli mass, you begin before sunrise with only candlelight. It occurs in Advent and is symbolic of Christ as the light of the world slowly being revealed and glorified along the timeline of the Joyful mysteries of the Rosary until about His baptism.
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Take a Journey Like the Magi
Take a Journey Like the Magi
By The Catholic Philadelphian
Are we ready to journey to Jesus?
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The Magi and the Epiphany
The Magi and the Epiphany
By John Roskoski
The traditions surrounding the Magi and the Epiphany have come under attack from many quarters. Research has shown that the story is not a myth, but told in mythic, story-like, language. It is a historically based proclamation of the Kingship of Jesus.
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And the Kings Did Come...Finally
And the Kings Did Come...Finally
By Dave Mishur
Three Magi, astronomers and learned men from the East, come to adore Jesus and offer him gifts.
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Infant Jesus of Prague Feast Day Celebrations
Infant Jesus of Prague Feast Day Celebrations
By J. John Basil
Devotion to the Infant Jesus of Prague started in the seventeenth century in Europe and has spread worldwide with many devotees found in India and the Philippines. The Infant Jesus Church and Shrine in Bangalore, India is a place of pilgrimage and hosts a 9-day event attended by thousands and streamed worldwide via YouTube.
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