Keep
your eyes open!...
Lent, 2020
(Ecc
3:1-7) All things have their season, and in their times all things pass
under heaven. A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant, and
a time to pluck up that which is planted. A time to kill, and a time to
heal. A time to destroy, and a time to build. A time to weep, and a
time to laugh. A time to mourn, and a time to dance. A time to scatter
stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace, and a time to be far
from embraces. A time to get, and a time to lose. A time to keep, and a
time to cast away. A time to rend, and a time to sew. A time to keep
silence, and a time to speak.
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VATICAN.VA: MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS FOR LENT 2020
CATHOLIC HERALD: The perfect Fulton Sheen book for Lent ("Characters of the Passion")
NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER: Lenten Living: A Family Guide
THE CATHOLIC WEEKLY: Be quiet this Lent
EXCERPT A BRIEF MEDITATION ON LENT:
Through the discipline of quiet prayer, we acknowledge and affirm the
sovereignty of almighty God in our lives. In doing so, we surrender the
notion of living according to the principle of power; we accept that we
are not the measure of all things. In the practice of fasting, we seek
to overcome the power that material things have gained over us; we
strive to be servants of the sacred and not merely masters of the
material and profane. Finally, we are called to almsgiving, through
which we share the fruits of our labor with those in need, and thus
surrender our natural tendency to be self-seeking. Prayer which unites
us to God, fasting which curbs our ceaseless desires, almsgiving which
allows us to actively love our neighbor as ourselves --- these are the
transforming gifts of Lent.
EASTER 2020 DATES
February 26 - Ash Wednesday
April 5 - Palm Sunday
April 9 - Maundy (Holy) Thursday
April 10 - Good Friday
April 12 - Easter Sunday (Western Christianity - Roman Catholic, Anglican Communion, Protestant Churches, etc.)
April 19 - Orthodox Easter Sunday (Orthodox Christianity - Eastern Orthodox Churches)
April 19- Divine Mercy Sunday
LENTEN SABBATICAL
The TRIB
TIMES will not
be updated again this year
during the Lenten season, extending to the first week after
Easter. My computer time will be limited to 30
minutes
each morning and evening during Lent. I will read all emails I receive,
and will answer all that I can, time permitting. I may also
occasionally
email non-reformatted news articles to Trib Times subscribers that I
find
to be of particular interest. But barring a major event (admittedly not unlikely these days), the Trib
Times
web page itself will not be updated.
I
apologize to all who have recently subscribed but
will keep your email information for use after my return. God
willing,
the next issue of the Trib Times should be shortly after Divine Mercy
Sunday, April 19, 2020. Please keep me in your
prayers, and be
assured that
I will do the same.
I recommend the
following links to keep up
with unfolding events:
Catholic
News
http://www.ewtnnews.com/
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/
http://www.catholicnews.com/
Signs of the Times
http://www.spiritdaily.com/
https://www.lifesitenews.com/
http://www.lifenews.com/
Readings & Meditations for Lent &
Holy
Week
http://www.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/Lent/index.html
http://www.lentreflections.com/
http://dynamiccatholic.com/bestlentever/
Catholic Commentary
Courageous Priest
Crisis Magazine
Aleteia
Newer
subscribers may also be interested in a meditation
that first appeared in the Trib Times in 2004, The
Pain of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ.
LINK TO DONATE TO AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED: https://www.aidtochurch.org/lent2020
Ladder
of Divine Ascent excerpt: Step 28- "On holy and blessed prayer"
11. If you feel sweetness or compunction at some
word of your prayer, dwell on it; for then our guardian angel is praying
with us.
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