Catholics: Think twice before you bury poor St. Joseph upside down in your front lawn when trying to sell your house.
Prayer
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Feel like you ‘failed’ Lent? God is still close to you.
Despite all my prayers and preparations, I struggled to commit to a single Lenten promise for 40 days. Does this mean I failed at Lent?
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Archbishop Lori calls for prayers after Baltimore Key Bridge collapse
The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed about 1:30 a.m. March 26 after a 900-foot container ship collided with one of its major support pilings.
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Dorothy Day’s ‘Letter to an Agnostic’
From 1934: Servant of God Dorothy Day pens a letter to an agnostic friend on the supposed “morbidness” of religion.
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The best gift you can give Pope Francis on his 11th anniversary? Praying with (and for) him.
The pope’s monthly prayer intentions reflect the tension between the comfort and challenge of the Gospel. On March 13, the 11th anniversary of Francis’ papacy, there is no better gift than to pray with and for him.
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Pope Francis tells grieving parents: It’s OK to ask ‘Why, Lord?’
In a speech read by an aide, Pope Francis told a group of grieving parents that the best response to grief is “to imitate the emotion and compassion of Jesus in the face of pain.”
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The gift of doing the same thing every day
There is a profound grace in submitting ourselves to a rhythm of time that we do not control.
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This Lent, let yourself be bored
As Lent draws nearer, we can begin to reflect: Do we open our hearts to God as we go about our days? Or are we disrupting every spiritual inclination with notifications and news feeds?
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How Julian of Norwich’s writings on suffering have helped me as a cancer patient
“If we come to understand that God suffers alongside us as one who truly knows what it means to suffer, our anger morphs into love and our suffering mysteriously becomes a means of transformation.”
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A prayer for death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith
Kenneth Eugene Smith will face execution by the state of Alabama tonight. I pray that God may grant him peace.