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Mid-Lent Review

by Jim Manney

Jack Mahoney, SJ,  suggests we review our Lenten program. But be careful: “What we should avoid is the almost magical or superstitious feeling that whatever we do in religion must be done completely and meticulously, like completing a novena or an indulgence or a chain prayer. For one thing, the Lord may have made it [...]

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Weekend Reading (and Viewing)

by Jim Manney

USA Today profiles Jim Martin, SJ. (“Everyone needs a medium. Mine is popular culture.”) A suggestion for imaginative meditation. William Barry, SJ, on having a friendship with God this Lent. An exhibit about the Passion in Art at St. Louis University. Lisa Kelly ponders what wasn’t said. (“It can be the most powerful message of [...]

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Alms and the Kingdom of God

by Jim Manney

I was inspired by this video by Greg Pierce, a Chicago businessman who is a gifted speaker and writer. Here is the YouTube link. This video is part of an online Lenten retreat that is underway at the Days of Deepening Friendship website.  Pierce has just published a new book The World as it Should [...]

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Try Bothering for Lent

by Jim Manney

This Lent, says Fr. Jim Martin, SJ, take the time to “bother.”  He points out that the people who angered Jesus were people like the two guys who ignored the wounded man in the parable of the Good Samaritan.  These are people who didn’t bother to love.  He goes on: So this Lent, instead of [...]

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Almsgiving and Joy

by Jim Manney

A Lenten reflection from Fr. Jim Martin, S.J. Turns out that fasting is about money (at least in part):

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Waiting in the Dark

by Maureen McCann Waldron

My sister and her husband, who live in Oregon, had their inaugural bike ride of the season yesterday. She wrote that the sun was shining, daffodils are up and blooming, crocus fields are thriving and it was 65 degrees as they rounded the road on their way home. It is in contrast to the unusually [...]

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Pray with Jesuits for Lent

by Jim Manney

Ash Wednesday was only yesterday, so it’s not too late to start a Lenten prayer program.  We suggested several last week.  Here are two more–both from Jesuits. The Spiritual Exercises blog offers a daily program of prayer and reflection based on the Spiritual Exercises.  It’s a collaborative effort of four Jesuits.  The reflections are meant [...]

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What to Avow or Amend

by Jim Manney

For Ash Wednesday — a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins and a painting by Dennis McNally, SJ, inspired by it. The poem is titled “The Lantern Out of Doors.” Sometimes a lantern moves along the night, That interests our eyes. And who goes there? I think; where from and bound, I wonder, where, With, all [...]

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Lent Online

by Jim Manney

Ash Wednesday is a week from today.  It’s time to make some plans about how you will observe the season of Lent. Have you ever considered praying online?  If you are reading this blog post, you spend at least part of your day on the internet.  You might want to do some praying in the [...]

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