Lent 2008:
A guide
for spiritual preparation

Week One:
Our Church and
our world

Catholic theology often addresses the relation between the Church and the world. In his letters, St. Paul calls that relationship the struggle between the spirit and the flesh.

Week Two:
Lent’s 40 days of ‘death’
lead to life

The liturgical seasons of Lent and Easter are a further way by which the Church transforms the world.

Operation Rice Bowl addresses local needs

Lent: Season of remembering
By Father Leonard Peterson

Week Three:
In desert fasting and prayer,
Jesus continues His mission

The season of Lent is the way Catholics enter into our Lord’s 40 days of prayer and fasting in the desert at the start of His public ministry, His proximate preparation for the sacrifice of the cross.

‘Operation Rice Bowl’ focuses
on Mali

Week Four
During prayer and fasting, temptations met in name of us all

Our Lord Jesus faces Satan in the desert as the New Adam.

Operation Rice Bowl focuses on hunger, poverty in Guatemala

Week Five
Jesus’ victory is seen on the cross
The events of our Lord’s original Lent are not lost in history. Even though the details are not spelled out in the Gospel, we know the content.

Rice Bowl series takes a look at Haiti


Cuaresma 2008
Conferencia de Obispos ofrece recursos multimedia para Cuaresma accesibles en la red
La Conferencia de Obispos Católicos de los Estados Unidos (USCCB) está ofreciendo una variedad de recursos multimedia para ayudar a los católicos a reflexionar durante el tiempo de Cuaresma 2008 que comienza el Miércoles de Ceniza, 6 de febrero.



The Catholic
Standard & Times
Issue of March 6, 2008

 

In this issue:


SECTIONS

Editorial:
Values of ‘greatest generation’ live on
It was supposed to be just another bombing run over Germany in World War II.


Guest Columnist
The West and the rest
By George Weigel


Homily
National Migration Week Mass: Praying to God with one voice
Homily of
Cardinal Justin Rigali
National Migration Week Mass
Cathedral Basilica
of Saints Peter and Paul
Sunday, March 2, 2008

Hispanic Catholics
Reducción en número de católicos compensada por nuevos inmigrantes

Según un nuevo estudio sobre la afiliación religiosa de los adultos estadounidenses, el 28 por ciento de los estadounidenses ha cambiado afiliación religiosa o no reclama ninguna religión formal.

Drop in number of U.S. Catholics offset by new immigrants, study says
According to a new study on the religious affiliation of U.S. adults, 28 percent of Americans have either changed religious affiliations or claim no formal religion at all.


Sports
Boys’ basketball:
North Catholic takes League championship

Anyone out there who thought, before the season began, that North Catholic was going to win the Catholic League boys’ basketball championship, raise your hand.

Profile:
First confession:
‘It was amazing’

“I practiced so hard that I might even be saying it in my sleep.”

The Word Became Flesh
Cardinal Rigali's weekly column. Read it here.

Cardinal Rigali's Lenten Letter 2008

Pope Benedict XVI's Lenten Letter 2008


NEWS

A Church enlivened,
a people at home

Strolling the streets of Darby with two children in tow one summer evening six years ago, Linus and Joy Ugorji, natives of Nigeria, came across Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Darby.
Mission and ministry of the Pope:
The Call of Peter

This Lent, to help Catholics spiritually prepare for Pope Benedict’s April 15-20 pastoral visit to the United States, the Catholic Standard newspaper of the Archdiocese of Washington has originated “From Peter to Benedict: The Keys to the Kingdom,” an eight-part series of columns on the papacy, which the CS&T has committed to publishing in entirety.
Our Lady Help of Christians students’ model city is a winner
Welcome to Port Tranquility, population 91,000. It takes its name from the Sea of Tranquility where Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon.


Catholic Underground for young adults: March 8 at Cathedral chapel
Catholic Underground Philadelphia, a program for young adults has moved to the chapel of the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul.


Celebrating a ‘joyful sacrament’ for the first time
“It feels good to tell your sins to the priest.” That’s the conclusion 8-year-old Sean Cunningham reached after making his first confession at St. Matthew Church recently.
Brothers guard Real Presence
You might say the men in the Gerstle family are pillars of the Church at Our Lady of Consolation Parish, an Italian personal parish in Philadelphia’s Tacony section.
Meeting with Cardinal stirs young women to consider religious life
“I know God has a call for me — I just don’t know what it is yet.”
Migration Mass marks Archdiocese’s legacy of service to immigrants
The Church of Philadelphia still joyfully welcomes the “stranger among us,” as witnessed by the annual Migration Mass celebrated by Cardinal Justin Rigali in a packed Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul on Sunday, March 2.

 


FEATURE

Our four-part series on political responsibility
Part IV

Clergy’s role in ‘Faithful Citizenship’
The U.S. Bishops’ document, “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship,” is primarily directed to the laity, but it does have implications for the clergy.

‘Faithful Citizenship’ guide for parishes and dioceses


Part III

‘Faithful Citizenship:’
Seven key themes


Part II

Faithful Catholics vote according to issues, not parties


Part I

U.S. Bishops call for...
A different kind of politics


Additional Documents
Pope Benedict XVI explains lay role in faithful citizenship

U.S. Bishops' Document:
Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship:
A Call to Political Responsibility
from theBishops of the United States


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