A Homily for Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion, by Father Terrance Klein
Lent
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Why moving from Lent to the Easter season is so tricky
No, I do not gorge on Cadbury Creme Eggs for seven weeks straight. But somehow a prolonged feast in the liturgical sense also throws me for a loop.
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The night before he died, Christ brought something new into the world
A Homily for Holy Thursday, by Father Terrance Klein
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What losing my mom taught me about the Cross
A Good Friday meditation from James Martin, S.J.
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Pope Leo XIV to carry cross at all 14 stations of Colosseum Way of the Cross
It will be the first time that a pope has carried the cross for every station in the Via Crucis since the tradition was revived at the site more than six decades ago.
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Lessons on suffering from the outdoor Stations of the Cross
For the first time, I was drawn to the Stations not as a meditation on Jesus’ suffering but as a place to lay my own burden down.
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Christ’s Passion in Matthew and the psychology of death
A Homily for Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, by Father Terrance Klein
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Jerusalem patriarchate cancels Palm Sunday procession, postpones chrism Mass amid war
Uncertainty surrounds upcoming Holy Week liturgies — central to the Christian faith and typically drawing large gatherings of pilgrims and local worshippers.
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Finding a Lenten vulnerability in Rilke’s ‘Letters to a Young Poet’
I inherited many books from my older brothers—esoteric books from the 1970s on running and weightlifting, and Pietro di Donato’s classic novel Christ in Concrete, about an Italian immigrant family of laborers shattered by the death of their patriarch. But my favorite is Letters to a Young Poet, by Rainer Maria Rilke. It is a […]
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This Lent, I’m focusing on spiritual conditioning
Can I keep going, push farther, give more?