Lent

Chicago’s Lenten Kickoff

On Ash Wednesday at St. Peter’s in the Loop in the heart of Chicago, 20,000 people will begin their Lenten journey.

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Candles in church

An Easter Pageant in Three Liturgical Acts

Death and sin have been conquered; life and grace reign supreme. We just have to have a major gala of happiness and rejoicing.
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Christ crucified | Photo by Christian GAFENESCH on Unsplash

Lent with Father Casey Cole: Filling a Hungry Heart

Chinese food is one of the many gifts from God on this earth. Cheap, easily accessible, usually sold in enormous quantities, and basically uniform in quality across the country.
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lent and penance | Photo by Andrey Grinkevich on Unsplash

Lent: More Than Penance

To think of Lent only as a time of penance is to do it an injustice.
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Cross and a gray sky | Photo by Markus Schumacher on Unsplash

Lent with Father Casey Cole: Death

My grandmother lived a very long, full life. In the 91 years before she died, she raised a family of 10 children—her crown jewel—who then produced her 28 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
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Cross of Christ | Photo by Chris Barker on Unsplash

Lent with Father Casey Cole: Keep Going

“I’ve made it.” In a moment of self-reflection, have you ever looked around at your life—all that you’ve done, all that you have, and all that the future holds—and realized that you were on a mountain?
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Jesus on a cross | Photo by Josh Applegate on Unsplash

Lent with Father Casey Cole: Confidence

No one, no matter how powerful, can control how we feel or what we think of ourselves. And yet even the weakest words from the weakest people often do just that, even to adults.
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