Tag: "Ash Wednesday"

Marked on Ash Wednesday
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Marked on Ash Wednesday

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For Ash Wednesday last year, my wife and I took the kids to mass at Fulton Sheen’s old seminary, the St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul, MN. Located on bluffs above the Mississippi River, with a fine view of the river and the Minneapolis sky line across the water, it has a neat old church […]

Keeping the Fast: Spiritual Fitness for Lent
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Keeping the Fast: Spiritual Fitness for Lent

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It is a well-founded observation:  More Catholics come to Church on Ash Wednesday (and Palm Sunday) than they do on Christmas and Easter. Reality, or ‘ecclesiastical legend’?  Although I wish it were different, I see this as a hopeful sign.  It tells me that, as Catholics we want the world to know that we are […]