View from the pew There once was a motto that a Catholic kid would hear in the days leading up Christmas: “Remember the reason for the season.” The point was it’s not meant to be a time of greed and gluttony, of fixation on shopping sprees and making a list for Santa of things you […]
A different fast
Here are ways during Lent to refrain from other appetites besides food which can help us prepare for the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ Abstaining from gossip By Judith Weigand Special to the Herald The most successful and rewarding “fasting” I ever did for Lent was more than 60 years ago when I […]
Fasting to be the person God is calling
By David Gibson Catholic News Service “We must love with our eyes open,” Canterbury’s Archbishop Justin Welby said last October. Saints, the Anglican leader advised, are people who are able to face and to confront “the entanglements of life.” Archbishop Welby spoke during an ecumenical vespers service in London’s Westminster Cathedral celebrating the canonization of […]
Why fasting is a paradox
Refraining from food is not an end in itself. It points beyond itself, focusing our attention on the reality of God’s presence here and now. By David Gibson Catholic News Service Fasting is a paradox for Christians. It encompasses seemingly contradictory intentions. First, fasting appears to possess a negative quality. It asks us to do […]