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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, 4 weeksApril 10, 2025 ago
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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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