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Recent Lent Blog Posts
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How to encourage full participation during Lent
Sister Sharon McMillan, SNDdeN, February 17, 2025
Just as the center of every week is Sunday, the holy day when the holy people gather, so “the summit of the whole litu...
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We Contemplate the Mystery: Worshiping with a hymn of the day during Lent and Easter
Michael Joncas, January 31, 2025
We Contemplate the Mystery is the second volume of a project dear to my heart. It provides a hymn of the day (HOD) for e...
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How to prepare for Easter: Spirituality in Lent
Rawn Harbor, January 24, 2025
In the ever-unfolding richness of the liturgical year, the Church offers a period of intentional preparation for the fai...
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How to craft a liturgical environment for Lent
Rev. Matt Pennington, January 2, 2025
One day I intend to write a hilarious short story set exclusively within the context of the immersion baptismal font. Within t...
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3 tips to help you prepare for Holy Week and Easter liturgies
Angela Westhoff-Johnson, February 19, 2024
Preparing the beautiful liturgies of Holy Week and Easter are among the most stressful for music directors. There is so much music...
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