Manila Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle washed the feet of a priest who had been held captive for months and the parents of a slain Filipino migrant worker.
Lent
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The Triduum in your 20s: What Holy Week taught me about change
Our lives are a series of little Good Fridays, Holy Saturdays and Easter Sundays.
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How Leonardo da Vinci painted us all into ‘The Last Supper’
We are all part faithful, part faithless.
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Fighting homelessness on L.A.’s Skid Row with a Lenten fast
Sometimes Christians ask what they can do but often are not ready for the answers.
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A lesson from the disciple of Jesus who ran away naked
If we have run, if we have been exposed for all the world to see, it is not our failure that matters most. It is Christ’s strength.
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How Eastern Orthodox’s ‘Forgiveness Sunday’ could save us from our Facebook feeds
On Forgiveness Sunday, we look for the best in the one we forgive and seek to give a charitable interpretation of the other’s intent.
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This Lent, I’m giving up swearing
Swearing can function as a shield against more honest emotions, a cool façade of indifference.
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The Best of His Love: a reflection for the fourth Friday of Lent
Today’s psalm prompts us to consider the balance of talking and listening in our lives.
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The suffering in Parkland is a reminder of our need for hope and resurrection into new life.
This year, an ancient symbol saw its significance magnified all the more on a tragic Ash Wednesday.
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What can we learn from the sins of the saints?
Have you heard the saints confess? It fills you with wonder at God’s grace, so clearly at work in their lives, in our world.