I DAMENGGUN KUARESMA

Posted by - March 10, 2019

FINE’NA NA TINAITAI                                                                               Dt 26, 4-10  Un tinaitai ginin i Lepblun Deuteronomy Ha sangåni si Moises i taotåo siha:  “U risibi si påli’ i kanåstra ginin hamyu ya siempri ha po’lu gi sanme’nan i attat i Saina, i Yi’us-miyu.  Dispues nai siempri hamyu en diklåra gi me’nan i Saina, i Yi’us-miyu, ‘Si tatå-hu unu

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Pope Francis gives the homily as he celebrates Mass at the Parish of St. Crispin in a suburb on the outskirts of Rome March 3, 2019.(CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Give up gossiping for Lent, pope suggests

Posted by - March 9, 2019

ROME (CNS) — Lent is a good time to concentrate on fighting the urge to gossip about others and instead trying to correct one’s own faults and defects, Pope Francis said. Reciting the Angelus prayer at noon March 3 with pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square and visiting the parish of St. Crispin in Labaro, a

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Staff members of St. Bartholomew Church in Columbus, Ind., including, from right, Connie Sandlin, Kathy Davis-Shanks and the pastor, Father Clement Davis, gather with students from the parish school to burn palm branches into ashes outside the church March 4, 2019. (CNS photo/Katie Rutter)

Catholic youth learn significance of ashes in fiery Lenten tradition

Posted by - March 9, 2019

COLUMBUS, Ind. (CNS) — Smoke billowed from a small fire pit, rising nearly as high as the steeple of St. Bartholomew Church in Columbus. About 100 students watched from a safe distance March 4 as church staff stoked the flame and periodically tossed in handfuls of dry palm branches. The smoldering ashes that remained were

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Pope Francis greets a child during an audience with members of Italy's Association Against Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma at the Vatican March 2, 2019. The pope said providing care to the sick should include taking care of their spiritual needs. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Caring for the ill should include spiritual assistance, pope says

Posted by - March 9, 2019

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Taking care of those who are sick or struggling with illness requires taking care of the whole person — including their spiritual needs, Pope Francis said. Offering care and healing is focused not just on “the disease of an organ or of cells but of the person in his or her

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Pope Francis speaks during a meeting with young Catholic leaders from Latin American at the Vatican March 4, 2019. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Service, not party affiliation makes a politician Catholic, pope says

Posted by - March 9, 2019

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — What makes a politician “Catholic” is not party affiliation, but dedication to promoting the common good, particularly through listening to and empowering people who often are overlooked, Pope Francis said. “I invite you to live your faith with great freedom, never believing that there exists only one form of political commitment

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Franciscan Brother Christopher Coppock burns last year's palms at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington March 3, 2019. The ashes will be used for Ash Wednesday March 6. (CNS photo/Julie Asher)

Don’t dread Lent, but make the best of its 40 days

Posted by - March 9, 2019

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Long, orange flames consumed the palms Massgoers had brought in to Washington’s Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land March 3 to burn ceremonially before the noontime crowd that gathered for their last Sunday Mass before Lent. “This is kind of a graphic reminder of how Lent starts: We make the ashes, we

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Hailey McConnell is enamored with Lothair at Langley Air Force Base, adjacent to Hampton and Newport News, Va., Feb. 13, 2019. The girl was with her mother, Melissa, waiting for her brother Caleb's pediatric appointment. Melanie Paul, right, brings her Shetland Sheepdogs, Lothair and Locksley, to the hospital once a week to provide animal-assisted therapy to inpatients and outpatients. (CNS photo/Jennifer Neville, The Catholic Virginian)

Catholic’s deafness no obstacle to practicing a corporal work of mercy

Posted by - March 9, 2019

HAMPTON, Va. (CNS) — “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Those words from Chapter 4 of St. Paul’s Letter to the Philippians are words by which Melanie Paul lives. Deaf since she was 12, Paul has had a successful career as a guidance counselor and has helped countless people through her

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“PUSHER”

Posted by - March 3, 2019

Despite being bashed and criticized, Jesus pushed his agenda with or without public approval, to tell the truth, the truth that he is the Son of God, the truth about his mission to save the world, the truth about God’s love for sinful humanity, the truth about the stubbornness and close heartedness of the Pharisees and

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