Wearing Your Faith
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Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Lenten season and one of the most popular celebrations in the Liturgical year for Catholics. Parking lots and pews around the world will be...
Psalms 51:12
A clean heart create for me, God; renew within me a steadfast spirit.
Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Lenten season and one of the most popular celebrations in the Liturgical year for Catholics. Parking lots and pews around the world will be filled with people ushering in this time of preparation. It may surprise you to know that Ash Wednesday is not actually a Holy Day of Obligation in the United States; one of the days beyond Sunday on which catholics are supposed to go to church. This has led to a lot of speculation as to why today seems to be the most popular day to attend mass other than Christmas and Easter. Some say it's because you, "get something" in the form of ashes. But what if the explanation goes slightly deeper than that? What if people just like wearing those ashes as a sign of faith? In a world where faith seems more and more marginalized, that is an especially encouraging explanation. It suggests people have the desire to express their faith outwardly. This is a very good thing and we shouldn't be afraid to foster that in in ourselves and in other people. Talk about faith in the public square. Wear that crucifix. Pray in restaurants. If you feel like God is calling you to express your faith, don't let societal nudges discourage your from doing so.
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A patient at the new Misky María Palliative Care Hospital located on the outskirts of Lima, Perú. / Credit: Asociación de las Bienaventuranzas (Association of the Beatitudes)ACI Prensa Staff, May 4, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA).In the context of the recent news of the death of Ana Estrada, the first person to request and receive euthanasia in Peru, there is a contrasting story to tell on care for the dying in that country: that of a new Catholic hospital on the outskirts of Lima that provides palliative care, which extends the love of Christ to those in extreme poverty who are in the final stages of their lives.The beginning of the 'Misky María' HospitalIn 2021, Father Omar Sánchez Portillo, a priest known for his extensive charitable work in the district of Lurín (south of Lima) and founder of the Association of the Beatitudes, had the dream of building a center to serve, with the "sweetness of Mary," people in situations of abandonment and extreme poverty who have terminal illnesses...
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President Joe Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jesuit Father Greg Boyle on May 3, 2024. / Screenshot/public domainCNA Staff, May 3, 2024 / 15:30 pm (CNA).The White House on Friday announced that Jesuit Father Greg Boyle, the founder of a prominent ministry dedicated to rehabilitating gang-affiliated youth, will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom alongside 18 other recipients this afternoon. Boyle, ordained a priest in 1984, founded Homeboy Industries in 1992 while pastor of Dolores Mission, a Catholic church and school in an area that at one time had one of the highest concentrations of gang activity in Los Angeles. Today, Homeboy Industries claims to be the largest gang-intervention program in the United States.The successful ministry, which now operates nationwide, offers training and job skills to those formerly involved in gangs or in jail, as well as case management, tattoo removal, mental health and legal services, and GED completion.Wh...
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Father Roger Landry, Catholic chaplain at Columbia University, discusses the protests at Columbia University in New York City on EWTN's "The World Over with Raymond Arroyo" on May 2, 2024. / Credit: EWTN News The World Over / ScreenshotWashington, D.C. Newsroom, May 3, 2024 / 17:05 pm (CNA).Father Roger Landry, a Catholic chaplain at Columbia University, said on Thursday that the protests making national headlines at the New York City school are being organized in part by "explicitly communist" outside forces. "There is an instrumentalization of what's going on in Gaza to advance an agenda," he said. "And that is to deconstruct our present world order at which the United States is considered the top of that order."Speaking on EWTN's "The World Over with Raymond Arroyo," Landry said that he had been walking through the encampment nearly daily, conversing with student protesters and other "outside agitators." While he said he believes that many of the protesters we...
