by Greg Beben | Feb 13, 2024 | Meditations
Today, as we begin the rich and holy Season of Lent, we submit ourselves to the discipline of Ash Wednesday. For the next Forty Days, we will prepare ourselves to enter more deeply into the Paschal Mystery, the Suffering, Death, and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus...
by Greg Beben | Feb 21, 2023 | Meditations
God created us so that we may enjoy his presence for all eternity in Heaven. It is for this reason that Jesus came into this world, so that by the merits of his Passion and Death we may share in the glory of Heaven. And it is for this reason that the Church, through...
by Greg Beben | Mar 1, 2022 | Meditations
As we embark anew on the Lenten journey, we are reminded by Fr. Francis in his Seasonal Introduction that “the Lenten Season is a pilgrimage of faith into our interior life where we meet the Lord and open our hearts to his transforming love.” We cannot ignore the...
by Greg Beben | Feb 16, 2021 | Meditations
One of the purposes of Lent is to awaken within us an awareness of our desperate need to be reconciled to God, so that we will return to him with our whole heart. Ash Wednesday places before us the opportunity and the challenge to admit our sinfulness and our need of...
by Greg Beben | Mar 5, 2019 | Meditations
“We arrive at Lent as humbled sinners,” as Fr. Francis reminds us in the Seasonal Introduction to Lent. We are grateful for the opportunity for spiritual renewal that Lent offers every year because every year we need to be stripped of the worldliness and the sin to...
