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Learning Asceticism from the Desert Fathers and Mothers

Posted on March 15, 2021March 29, 2021 by FRESHImage

Welcome to another installment of FRESHImage Presents! We’re at the midway point of the Lenten Season, and if we’ve really decided to challenge ourselves this Lent to grow in holiness and virtue, perhaps some of what we’ve decided to “give up” o...
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Perpetua & Felicity: Striving for Eternal Happiness

Posted on March 7, 2021March 29, 2021 by FRESHImage

The desire for happiness is a universal human experience. From of old philosophers have constructed their theories of what it means to live a good life based on this self-evident truth and have sought to articulate for the human family the path ...
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We Dare to Say: The Lord’s Prayer as Penitential Practice

Posted on March 3, 2021March 29, 2021 by FRESHImage

Welcome to FRESHImage Presents! Have you ever felt like you were just rattling off the words of the Lord’s Prayer and not really praying them? I know I have! We all have, we all get distracted, it’s so easy to fall into that trap and forget that...
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Polycarp: A Patron Saint for Lent

Posted on February 23, 2021March 29, 2021 by FRESHImage

February 23rd Today the Church commemorates one of the most acclaimed figures of its early life, St. Polycarp, bishop and martyr. The greatness of Polycarp’s reputation is really astounding when one considers how little we know of his life. H...
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Entering Deeper into Lent with Just A Little Talk

Posted on February 17, 2021March 29, 2021 by FRESHImage

We all have something in life we struggle with. Things that we find difficult to deal with, and don't really know where to begin addressing them. This could be something personal or relational. Maybe it is a vice we just can't seem to shake off,...
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The Stations of the Cross

Posted on February 16, 2021March 29, 2021 by FRESHImage

The Stations of the Cross is a beautiful prayer that properly orients us on our Lenten journey. This prayer, whether in its traditional or scriptural format, draws us into the drama of Christ's Passion so as to contemplate this central event of ...
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Ash Wednesday: The Price of Becoming Combustible

Posted on February 15, 2021March 3, 2021 by FRESHImage

In this edition of FRESHImage Presents, Tony reflects on the meaning of the ashes we receive at the beginning of Lent this Ash Wednesday. These ashes have an important message for us as we begin our Lenten journey toward personal and communal he...
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The Hopeful Message of Ash Wednesday

Posted on February 15, 2021February 21, 2021 by FRESHImage

Ash Wednesday: 2-17-21 The celebration of Ash Wednesday is something of a curiosity. Within Christian traditions which celebrate holy days of obligation such as Catholicism, Ash Wednesday is not counted among them, as for instance, Sunday Mas...
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Sowing in Tears

Posted on January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 by FRESHImage

Sowing in Tears Imprisoned for the first time in her young life (of the at least dozen times from 1917-1955), Dorothy Day lay in her cell shivering from the cold and starving. She had joined a group of suffragists in D.C. to protest the bruta...
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Hearing to See

Posted on March 26, 2017March 26, 2017 by FRESHImage

Fourth Sunday of Lent: 3-26-17 Peace be with You, We have come to Laetare Sunday, the name traditionally given to the fourth Sunday of the Lenten Season. “Laetare” is the singular imperative form of the Latin word “laetare,” meaning “to rejoi...
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