Tag: Lent

Lent invites not only prayer and fasting, but a deeper discipline of speech. At a time of rising division, Pope Leo XIV’s call to listen and learn speaks directly to university life.

Feeling uncomfortable about Holy Week? Good, writes Philippa Martyr. It confronts us with our fickleness, our failure to listen, and the uncomfortable truth about how we respond to Christ.

Joseph Ratzinger’s Jesus of Nazareth offers a Lenten call to rediscover the church as born from Christ’s communion with the Father – and to measure parish life by Word, Eucharist and faithful discipleship.

To get to the Resurrection, Jesus must go through the Passion first. It’s the same for us.

The only thing that might really be stopping the world from being evangelised is you.

The Blue Mountains on a Sunday afternoon. While many would already consider this a picturesque setting to spend a weekend, parishioners of St Thomas Aquinas parish in Springwood have taken a further step –  a reading group of the works of St Thomas Aquinas.  

Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman is a master class in how to engage with other people, says Philippa Martyr

Our managing editor describes the prayer, penance, and almsgiving of working in a newsroom.

The Stations of the Cross can be simple, no fuss, and utterly harrowing, says Philippa Martyr

You loved our summer reading picks, so here is The Catholic Weekly’s list of spiritual classics (after the scriptures, of course) if you are looking for some great Lenten reading. 

As Lent begins, Catholic leaders across East Africa are urging prayers – and action – for millions facing a deepening drought crisis.

As Lent begins, priests from across Sydney welcome Catholics who have been away a long time to return to the sacrament of Reconciliation.