Lent

  • Communal Lent – Raised Catholic episode 64

    Communal Lent – Raised Catholic episode 64

    The following is a transcript of a Raised Catholic Podcast episode. To listen to the episode, click here. Today is episode 64: Communal Lent Hi friends, happy first week of Lent.  If you went to mass this past Ash Wednesday, you heard a reading from the Book of Joel, all about returning to God “with your…

  • Let’s Talk About Lent – Raised Catholic episode 10

    Let’s Talk About Lent – Raised Catholic episode 10

    The following is a transcript from the Raised Catholic podcast. To listen to the podcast, click here. Today is episode 10: Let’s Talk About Lent Well, hello friends. As I’m recording today’s podcast, we are just about one week into Lent of 2021 and I have some thoughts. I bet you do, too. Because of…

  • Why

    Why

    I’m a Catholic making beef stew today on a Friday during Lent and I’m not going to eat it.  But, Kerry, I hear you saying, didn’t you hear that your local Cardinal Sean O’Malley lifted the obligation to abstain from meat during Lent due to the coronavirus? Yes, friend, I did hear that news, but…

  • Prodigal

    Prodigal

    During Lent, we hear a lot about how God is knocking on the door of our hearts.   My husband and a few friends are on a cursillo retreat weekend as I type these words, and I know it’s a theme they’ll look at as well. God knocks, and we let him in. Seems simple enough,…