From the Magazine

Obeying the Third Commandment and its call to keep the Sabbath is an important part of our identity.  Yet we also know that, in our increasingly secularized world, the numbers of those who attend religious services regularly is declining.…

Wednesday of Holy Week There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. — St. Basil the Great

Tuesday of Holy Week I am not my own; I have given myself to Jesus. — St. Kateri Tekakwitha

Monday of Holy Week We are Christians and Catholic not because we worship a key, but because we have passed a door and felt the wind that is the trumpet of liberty blow over the land of the living. — G.K. Chesterton

Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord O the wonderful power of the cross! O the unspeakable glory of the Passion, in which is seen at once the Lord’s judgment seat, the trial of the world, and the power of the crucified. — St. Leo I

Optional Memorial of St. Martin I, Pope and Martyr The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. — St. Teresa of Kolkata

Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent If God has stripped you of the sense of his presence, it is in order that even his presence may no longer occupy your heart, but himself. — St. Francis de Sales

Optional Memorial of St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr My longing to save souls grew from day to day; it was as if I heard Our Lord saying to me what he had said to the Samaritan: “Give me some water to drink.” — St. Thérèse of Lisieux

Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent Faith itself is of no avail without charity. For without charity faith can indeed be, but can profit nothing. — St. Augustine

Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent God does not require of us the martyrdom of the body; he requires only the martyrdom of the heart and the will. — St. John Vianney