Ash Wednesday - some basics

I hope you have a blessed Lent, in preparation for the coming Easter Season. Here's a few links that might be helpful.  Let us pray for one another!

USCCB's links for the season

The Holy Father's Lenten message

Why 40 Days of Lent? This explains it well:


Prepare for Sunday Masses by listening to podcasts by Fr. Robert Barron.

Here Fr. Barron comments on Lent:


Here's something about St. Therese of Lisieux from Catholic TV, as I re-read her autobiography this Lent.

Oh, and over at EWTN, be on the lookout for this, starting March 11th: The Catholic View for Women. Too bad they've only scheduled it for a monthly airing... pretty hard to build a viewership that way imho.

Articles from my archives that are Lent-worthy:

• Temptations, Jesus and Us
• Pilgrim Feet (On "going on pilgrimage" with the Lord during Lent)
• The Church as Mother and Teacher (On the Precepts of the Church - a good review for Lent)
• News of My Death (On getting in touch with our mortality)
• Turning Lent into Thanksgiving
• Spiritual 911 (On getting to confession)
• 25 Phrases from the Catechism Worth Memorizing
• Three Expressions of Prayer
• Entering More Deeply into Holy Week

And finally, there ain't nothin' like a red-hot linkfest administered by The Anchoress. Do tell her I told ya to drop by.