Posts Tagged ‘ Lent ’

How to Encourage Young Catholics to Go to Confession

April 14, 2011
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How to Encourage Young Catholics to Go to Confession

In 2009, three New York dioceses began the All Day Confessions campaign, an initiative to encourage Catholics to attend confession. Also known as Confession Monday, parishes in the Dioceses of Brooklyn and Rockville Center, and the Archdiocese of New York offer the Sacrament of Confession from 3 pm to 9 pm on the Monday...

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Tails of the Fishop: A Clever Fish Fry Promotion

April 7, 2011
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Tails of the Fishop: A Clever Fish Fry Promotion

Someone at Christ the Servant Parish in Canton, Ohio has an acute sense of pun. To promote their Friday Lenten gatherings, the parish is posting video “Codcasts” featuring some very fishy characters: The Fishop Phillip Atolop The Codinal Seamour Shrimp The Monkfish Sister Catherine Margaret Crab I’m not sure who’s behind the videos, but...

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Catholic Book Group Reading de Caussade for Lent

March 7, 2011
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Catholic Book Group Reading de Caussade for Lent

“Today God still speaks to us as he used to speak to our ancestors at a time when there were neither spiritual directors nor any systems of spirituality. To be faithful to the designs of God then comprised the whole of one’s spiritual life. Religious devotion had not become a science crammed with precepts...

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101 Practical Fasting Ideas for Lent

February 24, 2009
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101 Practical Fasting Ideas for Lent

Fasting, praying and almsgiving are the three penitential practices that we are asked to engage in during Lent. In addition to fasting and abstaining with the rest of the Church on Ash Wednesday and the Fridays of...

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