Everyday Discipleship

With global hunger rising, an annual Lenten initiative by the U.S. Catholic bishops has “never been more needed,” Bill O’Keefe, executive vice president for mission and mobilization at Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services, told OSV News.

A donation to CRS Rice Bowl helps provide lifesaving support to more than 200 million people in more than 120 countries. It also helps at the local level.

After discovering the joy of penance, prayer and virtue in your Lenten discipline, every day can then be a whole lot “Easter.”

By virtue of our baptism,we are all called to full, conscious and active participation in liturgical celebrations, which leads us to transformation and to bring the Good News of Jesus Christ to others.

Founded in Scripture and developed further through a series of papal documents, the social teaching of the church provides direction for how we are to live with our neighbor.

At the center of what it means to be Catholic is a life lived in and through the sacraments: baptism, Eucharist, anointing, confirmation, reconciliation, matrimony and holy orders–simply put, faith in action.

We struggle to love others as Jesus invites us to love.

Why do we trace a small cross on our forehead, lips and heart as the Gospel is about to be proclaimed? My mother’s response when I asked the same thing: “So that Jesus is in our minds, words and heart.”