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Self-Selection: The Problem with Our Penance

During Lent, the Church calls us to prayer, almsgiving, and, perhaps most prominently, fasting. What does Lenten fasting and penance look like? Well, besides the lenient strictures of abstaining from meat on Fridays and eating a little less on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, the Church leaves our penitential practices Read more…

By Daniel Staudt, 2 monthsApril 10, 2025 ago
Feast Days and Liturgical Seasons

Penance in a Festive Season?

Even as we enter a penitential season, I’d like to reflect on penance in a festive season. This topic does have an application to Lent. Every Sunday celebrates the Resurrection, but Sundays still remain part of the Lenten season. Today is the First Sunday of Lent, for instance, not a Read more…

By Jared Staudt, 1 yearFebruary 18, 2024 ago
Feast Days and Liturgical Seasons

Enter into the Forty Day Fast of Lent

Lent originated from the intense preparation of catechumens on the days preceding the Easter Vigil, as they prepared to receive Baptism: They who are to be baptized shall fast on Friday, and on Saturday the bishop shall assemble them and command them to kneel in prayer. And laying his hand upon Read more…

By Jared Staudt, 3 yearsFebruary 27, 2022 ago
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Lenten Fasting: Creating Noon with a Supplemental Beer

Medieval Lent was, to say the least, a lot harder. The season’s origins come from the early catechumenate, which led converts through a multi-day period of intense prayer and fasting before their initiation at the Easter vigil. Eventually, this time extended to forty days, in imitation of Christ’s fasting in Read more…

By Jared Staudt, 5 yearsMarch 15, 2020 ago
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