by Dr. Jared Staudt | Feb 14, 2024 | Articles, Lent, Prayer
Who would want to surrender before the battle even begins? Unlike attacks from the outside, discouragement strikes us from within, sapping our willingness to fight. Our adversary, the devil, knows this, of course, and works his best tricks to lead us into...
by Dr. Jared Staudt | Feb 1, 2024 | Lent, Our Team Picks, Prayer
When we complain about the Church and the world, we take out steam, but it often doesn’t lead to much action. The saints, however, took a different approach: to become the renewal through their own conversion to the Lord. God renews the Church through holiness, which...
by Dr. Jared Staudt | Feb 1, 2024 | Lent, Our Team Picks, Prayer
In Acts of the Apostles, Paul’s disciples were accused of turning the world upside down (Acts 17:6). By that, we should understand that it went right side up. The Gospel focuses primarily on the Kingdom of God, but, if we live within the Kingdom, we will become a...
by Dr. Jared Staudt | Jan 26, 2024 | Asceticism, Lent, Our Team Picks
Lent is a time of asceticism, a word that points back to the training of athletes in the ancient world. The monks took on a training program for the spiritual life in the desert through regular prayer and fasting in fraternity with other men. Just like preparing for a...
by Dr. Jared Staudt | Jan 25, 2024 | Asceticism, Lent, Our Team Picks
Every important event requires preparation, and so the Church has a traditional Pre-Lenten period to get ready for the holy season. In the East, we see this through the Meatfare and Cheesefare Sundays that ease into the penance of the Great Fast. In the West, starting...
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