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March 6, 2007

Catholic Carnival 109: Spiritual Reading for Lent

During Lent, Spiritual reading takes on even more importance. It's an important way to bolster your understanding of God as well as your faith, hope, and charity. During our times, reading good religious content is especially important. With that said, here's a plethora of articles that will help strengthen your faith and knowledge of Jesus Christ and His Catholic Church:

THEOdyssey starts us off fast with The God of Hebrew Scripture: Unjust and Evil? Is the Old Testament God just lusting after blood? Or is there something more? Read and find out.

Just Another Day of Catholic Pondering tackles another subject in Love of the Eucharist. When challenged to write about the Eucharist, this reflection was born.

Speaking of the Mass, The Kid Sister of Blessed Imelda offers us The Sacrifice of Praise. Anne explores a seeming paradox in the Mass that encompasses great meaning to a new Catholic.

Integrity takes us on a journey with Religious Sense: Introduction. This post explores the writings of Fr. Luigi Giussani, the founder of the Communion and Liberation lay movement. It starts with The Religious Sense, which examines the nature of our humanity. Besides this introduction post, you can already find summaries of the first few chapters.

Keeping on the historical track, Intentional Disciples explores the French Generation of Saints. Includes the basics and draws some lessons from their time for ours and for lay evangelization.

Postscripts From The Catholic Spitfire Grill joins the Carnival for the first time with 'Catholics Gone Wrong'. As she says, "Put down the stones." This post combines Chesterton, Belloc, and Ezekiel. Now how can you miss it with that mix?

A Catholic Mom in Hawaii keeps us focused on the season with Lenten Resolution - Spring Cleaning. This beautiful post (if nothing else, click just to see the site design) explores our Spring cleaning of ourselves during Lent.

HMS Blog also focuses on our Lenten journey with The Promise of Cross and Resurrection. This is a reflection on the Mass readings for the second Sunday of Lent, focusing on the meaning of Christian hope in God's promises.

Catholic Matriarch in My Domestic Church explores the essential truths of the Church in Trust and Faith. Just as important as learning the doctrine, dogma, and precepts of the Church we need the grace to trust the Church to have the Truth. Once we establish that trust we can humbly obey the Church even when our understanding is imperfect.

And Catholicism, holiness, and spirituality takes us back to the Mass readings with Glimpses of Transfiguration. It reminds us that God's presence can, and does, transfigure us all. We can see it in people every day, when we have the eyes to see it.

But Lent is the season. Catholic Fire helps us all in Acquiring Virtues for Lent: Humility. The post quotes several Saints on Humility and acquiring it.

My Domestic Church muses in another direction with Some thoughts theological thoughts. The post contemplates an illustration from the Image of God series about the effects of sin on the soul. And the realities behind the Discovery Channel show, Men Having Babies.

Believe and Profess tells us about some Manly Men from the Saint John Vianney Seminary. He relates his experience of joining in prayer with them outside of a theater to call attention to the anti-Catholic play "The Pope and The Witch" now being staged at the University of Minnesota.

At Herb Ely we are greeted with Desert Temptations, Beowulf, Cardinal Virtues, and Ethical Crises. It's a reflection on Herb Ely's favorite book on the practice of spirituality on the job. The practice of spirituality in the workplace requires that we recognize ethical decisions and have the ability to make them - and make them stick.

Wheelie Catholic points out some issues in Inclusion . . . The Process. Inclusion of people with disabilities is ongoing process. Access can be an issue at times, but she finds herself marveling at other's willingness to be flexible and their commitment to include her. But after years of dealing with this alone so many times, what she cherishes most is that they truly care.

SFO Mom learns something from the kids in And God bless Me!. Little children often remind us of the kind of trust we should have in God.

Practicality is nice for bloggers. And Faithful Web offers a full helping with 40 Ways to Keep Readers from Giving Up Your Site for Lent. It offers 40 suggestions on interesting blog or Catholic website content.

We end with Deo Omnis Gloria asking Was the Tomb of Jesus Christ found by James Cameron? The post explores the ramifications as well as the realities behind the Discovery channel show (they keep coming up this week in a negative light, hmmm).

Hope you enjoyed this as much as I did. For those who want details on being a part of the Catholic Carnival, go here.

God bless,
Jay

Posted by jay at March 6, 2007 8:10 AM