Tag: Catholic Weekly stuff

…over at The Catholic Weekly, “Good Friday and Easter”: Throughout Lent, we have been observing the ancient Jewish acts of piety—almsgiving, prayer, and fasting—that passed into the Christian Tradition and

….over at The Catholic Weekly, “Jesus on Fasting”: Jesus finishes his discussion of the three Jewish acts of piety—almsgiving, prayer, and fasting—with an utterly consistent emphasis on fasting for God

over at The Catholic Weekly: “What is the Point of Fasting?”: We now move on in our Lenten series to discuss the third of the Jewish acts of piety that

…over at The Catholic Weekly: “Jesus on Forgiveness”: At the outset of this Lenten series, I remarked on the truly cosmic dimension of what our Faith teaches about the nature

….for The Catholic Weekly. This week: “Jesus on Prayer”: If the first Lenten discipline Jesus discusses in the Sermon on the Mount is almsgiving, the biggest (at least by word

…over at The Catholic Weekly looks at the question “Why Are You Giving Alms?“ Jesus is the Word made flesh, not the Word made word. When God chose to save

My eight part series on Lent continues over at The Catholic Weekly, still with no paywall!: If, as we said last time, the point of Lent is to get ready,

…over at The Catholic Weekly: The gospel for Ash Wednesday comes to us straight out of the Jewish tradition in which Jesus was born and raised and which his Holy