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What is Lent? Part of a great video series at CRS…

There’s a bunch of videos over at CRS. Consider making Operation Rice Bowl part of your Lenten Observance.  

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New Radio Shows with Allison Gingras and Lisa Hendey

A Seeking Heart with Allison Gingras — Catholic book enthusiast, Allison Gingras, unpacks a new book each week. Whether you read along or choose to just listen along, Allison promises that anyone with a seeking heart will always be glad they tuned in. The website says that the book selections will span all genres, from faith sharing to…

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This makes me think… a merciful heart is not a weak heart…

Lent is a time of renewal for the whole Church, for each communities and every believer. Above all it is a “time of grace” (2 Cor6:2). God does not ask of us anything that he himself has not first given us. “We love because he first has loved us” (1 Jn 4:19). He is not aloof from us….

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On keeping a good Lent: 10 Helpful Reading & Resource Links:

“God does not ask of us anything that he himself has not first given us.” – Pope Francis 1. Read Pope Francis’ Message for Lent 2015. (The quote above comes from it.) 2. Sign up for Fr Robert Barron’s daily Lenten Reflections. 3. Book Review by Barb Szyszkiewicz: 40 Days, 40 Ways, A New Look at…

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The F.U.N. Quotient… Eye of the Tiber

These satirists get better and better… worth a read every week! Raymond Arroyo Apologizes for Being Hit by a Cannonball at the Battle of Lepanto

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50 Shades’ ain’t sexy… forget the movie — try a virtual marriage retreat during National Marriage Week

50 Shades of Grey, the movie version of the best-selling novel, is hitting theaters this weekend. Lots of commentary about the film’s negative attributes is floating around the blogosphere. Matt Fradd, author of Delivered: True Stories of Men and Women Who Turned from Porn to Purity, has a video up at Covenant Eyes: Fradd’s points…

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The F.U.N. Quotient… or, the heavens declare the glory of God.

The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork. -Psalm 19:1- NASA released this video of our closest galactic neighbor. Pretty startling how small we are in comparison to the cosmos. It’s also pretty startling that the God of the Universe sent his Son to redeem us on this tiny…

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