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By Dr. R. Jared Staudt, Catholic World Report - Do you feel stuck in the spiritual life, like something is holding you back? Did Lent fall short of bringing about deeper conversion?.... Holy Week, as the culmination of Lent, seeks to resolve these dangling tensions, as we celebrate the Paschal Mystery, the new Passover initiated by Jesus. It’s about experiencing liberation, the freedom that comes from being saved from deadly forces we can’t control. It only takes death.

By Julie V. Burkey, Crisis Magazine - Catholics of a certain age can still recall the Faith of the 1940s, 50s, and early 60s. These decades were largely a continuation of previous centuries of steady Church growth with full pews at most Masses. The parish priest was greatly respected for playing many roles in service to both God and parishioners: confessor, counselor, intercessor, and, most importantly, celebrant at Holy Mass. The clergy served, and the faithful received.

By St. Augustine, OnePeterFive - Yesterday’s lesson in the holy Gospel, on which we spoke as the Lord enabled us, is followed by today’s, on which we purpose to speak in the same spirit of dependence. Some passages in the Scriptures are so clear as to require a hearer rather than an expounder: over such we need not tarry, that we may have sufficient time for those which necessarily demand a fuller consideration... And the Jews’ passover was near at hand. The Jews wished to have that feast-day crimsoned with the blood of the Lord. On it that Lamb was slain, who has consecrated it as a feast-day for us by His own blood. ...