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Home: Core Subjects: Catholic Religion: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Catholic Religion: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Lead Us Not into Temptation - Sean InnerstIn this month’s installment of our liturgical Bible study, we come to the readings for the Lenten season. The 40 days of Lent are meant to replicate in the life of the Church the 40-day fast of Jesus recounted in the Gospel reading for the First Sunday of Lent. That reminds us of the operating principle of our Bible study: Jesus Christ is the central, inner meaning of the whole of salvation history. Read more... Lead Us Not into Temptation - Father William P. SaundersIn the Our Father, we pray, "And lead us not into temptation." This sounds a little odd, because why would God lead us into temptation? Read more... Lead Us Not into Temptation . . . - Scott HahnThe Lord's Prayer is like a marathon course whose last mile winds up a steep hill. Or it's like a Himalayan mountain whose ultimate peak crowns a sheer, vertical rock face. Read more... Leading Students to Christ - EDWARD P. SRIIn his book The Mystery We Proclaim (Our Sunday Visitor, 1993), Msgr. Francis Kelly offers a five-step plan that provides catechists with a helpful framework for every time they teach the faith. Read more... Learning to love bravely - Doug McManamanMy friend's attitude towards policing is an accurate image of what our attitude in the spiritual life ought to be. Read more... Leavened or Unleavened Bread? - FR. WILLIAM SAUNDERSAbout a year ago, I attended Mass at a parish I had never been to before. During Communion, I noticed that the host was made of leavened bread. I thought Communion hosts were only supposed to be made from unleavened bread. Could you explain the Church’s teaching on this matter? Read more... Lent and Fasting - Grace MacKinnonDear Grace, Someone asked me with a question about why we have Lent and also why we do not fast for the entire forty days. Could you please explain the message behind Lent and why we do not fast every single day of the forty days? Read more... Lent, a call to "turn our lives around" - Pope Benedict XVI"Repent and believe the Gospel" and "Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return." Read more... Lent: A Call to Purification - Fr. Leonard M. PuechLent is the annual call to purify our souls for the great feast of Easter, figure of the eternal Easter, for which the soul must be perfectly pure. Read more... Lent: Purification from Natural Motives - Fr. Leonard M. PuechMan is not a pure spirit. All his actions do not spring from his spiritual nature. A good part — if not all — comes from his animal instincts, and often these instincts go to excess, passing the bounds of reason. Read more... Lenten Music - ERIC M. JOHNSONFew people today would think of Lent as a season for liturgical music. This is all very regrettable because when you look back at musical history, Lent has been an enormous source of inspiration for composers. Read more... Lenten Pretzels - Fr. William SaundersDo pretzels really have anything to do with Lent? Read more... Lesson One in Prayer - Peter KreeftLet's get very, very basic and very, very practical about prayer. The single most important piece of advice I know about prayer is also the simplest: Just do it! Read more... Lessons from a Holy Man What Today's Catholics Can Learn from Padre Pio - CHARLES M. MANGANWhat is there to glean from the life of Padre Pio? Plenty! His enthusiasm for Jesus Christ and His Church is contagious. Read more... Let not your heart be troubled - Father George W. RutlerKing Charles II said that a gentleman is one who puts those around him at ease. Read more... Letter of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI to the Bishops of the Catholic Church - Pope Benedict XVIThe remission of the excommunication of the four Bishops consecrated in 1988 by Archbishop Lefebvre without a mandate of the Holy See has for many reasons caused, both within and beyond the Catholic Church, a discussion more heated than any we have seen for a long time. Read more... Liberal and Conservative: Two terms that have no place in Catholic theology - Deacon Douglas McManamanRecently a student of mine sent me a series of questions she plans to ask me during an interview she’s conducting as part of an English assignment. In one of her questions, she asks whether my theological views are “liberal, midstream, or conservative”. Read more... Life after Death - Peter KreeftPie in the sky bye and bye — that's what you Christians believe. Read more... Life Principles: A Model for Teaching the Philosophy of the Pro-Life Movement - Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D.The Life Principles Program is a project devoted to explaining the underlying philosophy of the pro-life movement to a secular culture. This uniquely rational and commonly accessible approach has had a powerful and overwhelmingly successful effect on the positive education of pro-life issues around the country. Here following is a short-course in the Life Principles by founder Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D. Read more... Lightheartedness - Donald DeMarcoLightheartedness is a most suitable virtue for man since he is essentially a lighthearted being. He is a lighthearted being who has fallen from grace and aspires to rise again. Read more... Like Paul in Caesarea - Father George W. RutlerHaving spent more than a few years dealing with mental patients, I thought I was pretty well informed about the etiology of psychosis. Read more... Limits to Receiving the Eucharist - FR. WILLIAM SAUNDERSPlease cite the Canon Law code that says one can only receive Communion twice a day and all of the stipulations. And what are the consequences to exceeding that law even if your intentions are truly to feel united with Christ and not a numbers game? Read more... Listen to his voice - Father George W. RutlerA father recently bemoaned the fact that the iPod had deprived him of his teenage son. Read more... Listening at the Liturgy - REV. BENEDICT J. GROESCHELThe liturgy exhorts us with beautiful verses to respond to the readings in an enthusiastic way, not only with voice but with mind and heart. Read more... Liturgical Vestments - Fr. William SaundersEarlier this spring, you wrote a series on the Order of the Mass. I have always wondered about the vestments that priests wear at Mass. Would you write a column on this? Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 ... [>>] Related Categories:
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