Tag: Lent
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Giving a Gift For Lent
-Fr. John Roche, SDB We usually associate gift-giving for Christmas and birthdays, but Lent is, in fact, the liturgical season par excellence for reflecting upon gift-giving and receiving. The whole journey of Lent is focused upon the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. We follow the path of Christ through his public ministry to his…
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For Lent: Take off ‘First World’ Lenses and Learn the Reality of Others
-Fr. John Roche, SDB Recently I led a day of reflection for a wonderful bishop, Bishop Gerald Barnes of San Bernardino, his presbyteral council and his curia. I had been invited to share Salesian spirituality to offer some reflection on the Salesian Year of Youth. To model the central Salesian priority of youth serving youth,…
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Lenten Special: The Last Things, Death, Evil, and Sin
PDF – DB Study Guide – March 2012 As we enter into Lent, this issue of the Don Bosco Study Guide will look at Don Bosco’s religiosity and his pivotal understanding of the last things, death, evil, and sin. It is difficult to confine a study of Don Bosco’s educational system to a few topics. The approach to …