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The season of Lent lasts for the six-and-a-half weeks before Easter when Christians prepare to remember Jesus Christ’s suffering and death; and to celebrate his Resurrection, his raising to life from the dead. There is a proverb which says ‘no matter how far you have gone down the wrong road, turn back’.
With Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent, we can seek to ‘turn back’ to Christ, to God who loves us more than we can imagine.
In our Lent section we have more information on the season, daily mp3 downloads where we relate the day's Gospel readings to movies, Lent resources and much more.
Year for Priests
19 June 2009 - 19 June 2010
Pope Benedict XVI has called the whole Church to celebrate a Year for Priests beginning on 19th June 2009, the Feast of the Sacred Heart.
His purpose for this year is to encourage priests in their “striving for spiritual perfection on which, above all, the effectiveness of their ministry depends” and to highlight “the importance of the priest’s role and mission in the Church and in contemporary society”.
To do this the Holy Father calls us to a renewed focus on the centrality of Christ in our lives and in the Church and that “brings with it the correct appreciation of the ministerial priesthood, without which there would be neither the Eucharist, nor even the mission nor the Church herself”.
The Cause of John Henry Cardinal Newman
21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890
The Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman was an Anglican received into the Catholic Church in 1845.
He was made a Cardinal in 1879. The cause for his beatification is currently being considered. He was declared a Venerable by the late Pope John Paul II in 1991 after the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints decreed that he exercised all of the Christian virtues in a heroic degree.
Click to read more about the Cause of Cardinal Newman.
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