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If you use a liturgical desk calendar, you will notice the word abstinence stamped on every Friday page throughout Lent. Abstinence is a self-enforced restraint in bodily activities that are widely experience as giving pleasure. For Catholics 59 years of age and younger, abstinence is meant to elevate the believer’s spiritual journey throughout the 40-plus
Welcome to the Good Word, a reflection on the readings of the daily liturgy. I am Father Karl Esker, a Redemptorist priest. Our readings today demonstrate God’s faithfulness and mercy toward his people. God sent the prophets and finally his only son to show the way even when his people continued to turn from his
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