Making Easter the Cornerstone of Our Year
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It is near impossible to overstate the significance of Easter. It stands out as primary and unique for at least three reasons.
It is near impossible to overstate the significance of Easter. It stands out as primary and unique for at least three reasons.
Whenever I speak to a crowd about the woke movement, an inevitable comment surfaces in the Q&A. With a sort of resigned sadness, parents will tell me about their teen or adult children who are now woke, uninterested in the faith of their childhood, and disdainful of those who passed it down to them.
Spiritual wisdom for Lent and throughout the year from a 16th-century classic beloved by, among others, St. Francis de Sales.
I am convinced that our most significant response to the challenges of our age will be in the most ordinary practices. I do not say the obvious but the ordinary.
A few months ago, my oldest son told me he has a friend who has seven siblings, four with Down Syndrome.
My daughter and I were on a walk the other day when she sighed all of a sudden. "I really don’t like Lent," she said.
We are consistently told that bodily presence is optional and expendable.
Lent calls us into a season of 40 days of fasting. It's common for us to focus particularly on one edible attachment: chocolate, alcohol, dessert, etc.
A single mother who works full time says that when she gets home from work and asks her 16- and 14-year-old daughters for help with dinner, they respond, "That’s your job."
This is perhaps at once the most terrifying and practical of all the principles I have found in Thomas Aquinas.
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