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Lessons of the Heart
In this issue of Catholic Update author Alice Camille offers thoughtful day-by-day guidance through the seaon of Lent, tied to the daily liturgy readings for 2010. She writes, "For many of us, this season has come and gone so many times, we may arrive at Ash Wednesday a bit ho-hum about it all. Yet some who walked this road with us last year never imagined they wouldn't have the chance to do it again. If this were your last Lent, how would you make it your best?"...
   
   
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DAILY GUIDANCE
"Lent is, of course, the traditional time for engaging in religious practices. The key is to strike a balance between external and internal and to undertake these practices ...
EVERYDAY WISDOM
The book of Revelation—you might find it fascinating, you might find it incomprehensible, but either way you probably don't think it has much to say about everyday ...
INSPIRATION FROM LUKE
God's plan for your life is not as mysterious or unknowable as you might think. As Sister Ann Shields demonstrates in her probing reflections on the Gospel of Luke, the key to knowing what ...
THE YEAR FOR PRIESTS
In this very personal and moving reflection on the meaning of the priesthood, Father Alfred McBride explores a priest's commitment to feed our people and witness the church's social teachings, to spend time in daily prayer, ...
   
The Holy Family
In this issue of Catholic Update, author James Martin, S.J., examines what we know of the Holy Family from Bible accounts and how and what their ...
Advent Day by Day
This issue of Catholic Update features day-by-day meditations by renowned author Kathy Coffey. Coffey encourages you not to attempt to achieve ...
Catholic Schools
In this issue of Catholic Update author Elizabeth Bookser Barkley reflects on her own experience in the Catholic schools of the 1950s and 1960s, ...
Key Themes of Charity in Truth
In this issue of Catholic Update author Kenneth R. Overberg, S.J., explains and discusses Pope Benedict XVI's June 2009 encyclical, Charity in ...
   
 
   
       
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