Lent
Lent in the Catholic Church has three purposes: prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. The cyclical nature of the liturgical year provides a rhythm for engaging in these practices with greater depth each year. But what if your daily life is busy? What if your spiritual life is stagnant? Do you need a Lent […]
Holy Week is a time of transition in the liturgical calendar of the Catholic church. It is the movement from Lent to Easter in which the faithful reenact and participate in Christ’s Passion. “Passion” comes from a Latin word, “patior”, which means “to endure” and “to suffer”. At Catholic Radio Network, we invite you […]
What Is A Rule Of Life? A rule of life is not a mandate or law, but a spiritually-based daily routine that includes time for prayer, work, ministry, recreation, and rest. Religious orders in the Catholic Church are organized by a rule. Yet each order has a different rule by which it lives […]
Just as the season of Advent leads the faithful to Christmas, so does Lent prepare for Easter. Society has captured Christmas, swapping out Jesus with the commercialization of giving. In the fiscal year (and in some families) Christmas is the high point of the year. However, in the Catholic church that is not the case. […]
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