One does not have to turn over too many pages of Holy Scripture before learning the high cost of discipleship. So, what exactly is the price that we are expected to pay in order to follow Christ? To organize our entire lives in complete conformity to a God pierced and crucified for our sins? Love…

Ash Wednesday is the one day of the year when we can see if the strangers we meet in street and store are Catholic—at least we can see who went to Mass to get their Lent started. While the black ashes clearly mark the brows of the baptized, it isn’t clear to most of those…

The sacred season of Lent, called the Great Fast by our eastern Catholic brethren, was instituted by the Apostles themselves as Dom Gueranger writes: Lent, founded upon the three pillars of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving is the primary season of penance in the year and must be observed with the greatest strictness for the love…