Don’t get too down on yourself if your Lent hasn’t been perfect. Be easy with yourself. But keep taking those steps towards God.
Lent
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The sacrifice God really wants
God does not need our external acts of piety. Rather, he asks us to sacrifice our arrogance, our insistence on autonomy, our selfishness, our fickleness, all of our shortcomings, upon his altar.
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What “strange gods” do we welcome into our hearts?
As we draw near the halfway mark of Lent, it would behoove us to reflect upon which gods we are honoring, admiring and loving more than God who gave us life. And then to show them the door.
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Do you find it hard to listen to God? You’re not alone.
Rather than subordinate our own ambitions and desires to God’s plan, we often close our ears and tune out his voice.
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God can help us set healthy boundaries
With the smartphone now functioning as an essential anatomical appendage, it is harder than it has ever been to make distinctions, to turn off the noise, to say “Enough.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What snowfall in Rome taught me about Lent
The freshness and wonder, the way that what was there before still exists but is now shot through with newness. The city glitters. Why not? Lent is the season of baptismal preparation as much as penance.
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God helps us in unexpected ways—even through a smile
We have experienced God’s benevolent interventions in our own lives.
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Fr. James Martin, S.J.: It’s Lent. Give to the poor—generously
Jesus asks us to be generous with the poor. It’s one of the foundations of his public ministry: caring for the poor himself and asking his disciples to do so.
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What does God take delight in? Our trust.
We are invited, today, to listen—and as the psalmist today colorfully puts it, God has even done us the courtesy of digging out our ears so that we can hear.
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Is forgiveness out of fashion?
Even in our relationships with family and friends, forgiveness can be hard to come by.