by edaday | Feb 18, 2015 | Lent, News Archives
Right from the readings on Ash Wednesday, Lenten gospels remind us of the traditional ascetical practices of Lent, including almsgiving, fasting and prayer. Often times we tend to overlook these because see them in the context of being somewhat “old...
by edaday | Apr 11, 2014 | Lent, News Archives
We don’t know all the details about the life of St. Viator, but this much we know: he walked with Bishop Just, accompanying him in his desert journey, sharing times of prayer and penance. From the time of our founder, Father Louis Querbes, in various ways and in...
by edaday | Mar 10, 2014 | Lent, News Archives
Paging through magazines or watching television commercials, one discovers a popular attention getting device: the “before and after.” Advertisers use this approach to demonstrate the usefulness of their product or service. In the “before” stage, an individual...
by edaday | Mar 4, 2014 | Lent, News Archives
Lent is a very quiet time. It starts when we receive ashes and are reminded that we are dust and to dust we shall return. The liturgical rites of the Lenten season are simple. Lent is this long time for us to spend in reflection and prayer. Our prayer is one of...
by viatorians | Mar 31, 2013 | Lent
Gospel: John 20:1‐9 On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them,...
by viatorians | Mar 30, 2013 | Lent
Gospel: Luke 24:1‐12 At daybreak on the first day of the week the women who had come from Galilee with Jesus took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb; but when they entered, they did not find the body of...
