Three Ash Wednesday Offerings

Posted by The Editors on Feb 17, 2021 9:18:28 AM

This Ash Wednesday, here are three brief, thought-provoking articles that will hopefully help you enter more intentionally into this season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.

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Topics: almsgiving, Ash Wednesday, Lent, prayer, fasting

Choosing your Lenten practices

Posted by Elizabeth Clarke on Feb 10, 2021 10:08:17 AM

“What are you giving up for Lent?” In my youth, this question was fraught with the anxiety of choosing which I would rather give up for forty days: ice cream or chocolate. More recently though, I have tried to embrace the ascetic element of this liturgical season as an opportunity to examine how God is inviting me to let go and who God is inviting me to become.

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Topics: almsgiving, Lent, prayer, fasting, traditions

Choosing your Lenten practices

Posted by Elizabeth Clarke on Feb 17, 2020 7:22:40 PM

“What are you giving up for Lent?” In my youth, this question was fraught with the anxiety of choosing which I would rather give up for forty days: ice cream or chocolate. More recently though, I have tried to embrace the ascetic element of this liturgical season as an opportunity to examine how God is inviting me to let go and who God is inviting me to become.

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Topics: almsgiving, Lent, prayer, fasting, traditions

A lesson in almsgiving from an 8-year-old

Posted by Lesley Kirzeder on Apr 13, 2019 7:32:00 AM

Out-of-uniform “dress down” days are a common way for Catholic schools to incentivize charitable giving among their students. This month’s dress down day at my children’s grade school benefitted the St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry, so the school was collecting canned goods instead of money.

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Topics: almsgiving, Lent, prayer, family life, inspiration

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