Easter in the Home
With Easter right around the corner and my children growing up fast, getting them into a proper mode of expectation for the feast day is a concern of mine. I have done what I...
Tagged: Penance
On Tax Collectors and Prostitutes
This last week in the Luxembourg Gardens, my favorite large park in town, I was sitting with a friend, “taking in the sun,” as they say here, and was accusing myself of being a...
Magnum Opus: A Lenten Observation
“Mommy,” my six-year-old daughter asks me, her face shining with enthusiasm. “Can I clean up my room so I can offer up a sacrifice with Jesus?” She hangs on my answer as if she’s...
Sunday Edition *Updated*
A previous edition of this post stated that the fast and abstinence rules do not apply on the Feast of the Incarnation and on Maundy Thursday. After a question from a reader and further...
Lent and the Spirit of Sacrifice
Ed: As it is normative to have priests, not laypeople, discussing the importance of Lent, I commissioned Fr. McKenna to do an article for TR. I present this to you at the beginning of...
News Roundup: October 29, 2013
All Souls Day is Saturday. Enroll your loved ones in St. Gertrude the Great’s Purgatorian Society. Going overboard: Finer Femininity helps us keep our perspective on mortification in “Penance–Light and Peace, Quadrupani” The incredible...
