by Jacob Zepp | Feb 8, 2024 | Lent, Our Team Picks
Seeking Depth in Desert Places For the early Christians and through the Middle Ages, Lent was a season of rigorous fasting. Their lives were steeped in a desire for closeness with the divine—adopting ascetic practices not as mere obligation but as a heartfelt quest...
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 Jacob Zepp | Jan 26, 2024 | Lent, Our Team Picks
Have you ever wondered why we observe the season of Lent before Easter? Put another way, “If Christ has risen, why do we still observe this penitential season?” The history of Lent can help us answer these questions and prepare to make a good Lent this year. Lent is 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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