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Live and Lent Go!

Even though I’m not Catholic, I try to give up something for Lent to test my willpower. This year it was to not lounge in bed immediately...
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Lent

  • lent
  • February 20, 2012
OK, I know what you’re thinking: What’s a nice Jewish boy doing writing a piece on Lent? Well, my editors at Examiner.com asked us....
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Seeking the origins of Lent traditions for spiritual growth

  • Palm Sunday Spirituality
  • April 15, 2011
Christians throughout the Los Angeles area and throughout the world are gearing for the culmination of the forty day period known as Lent. Holy...
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It's not about you

Lent began on Ash Wednesday. It's a six-week season for true believers to reflect, repent and redirect their lives in preparation for the...
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Dead anchovies, trapped like sardines

Thousands upon thousands, perhaps even millions, of silver scaled anchovies now cover the Redondo Beach King Harbor. Some float belly up, lying...
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Christians observe season of Lent

For many Christians throughout Los Angeles and throughout the world Lent is the most spiritual time of the year. It begins forty-six days before...
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Pope on Ash Wednesday, Lent, and Easter, but what of Passover and Unleavened Bread?

In his comments yesterday, Pope Benedict XVI said: Today, Ash Wednesday, we begin the Lenten journey: a journey that extends over 40 days and that...
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Friday Tradition For Lent

With lent almost over, the demand for fish on Friday might drop but this is one place that might keep consumers sticking to the pattern. Long Beach...
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Reflecting on the Transfiguration

  • Defiining Faith
  • March 5, 2012
Yesterday was Transfiguration Sunday. I went to Mass fully expecting a sermon on what we could look forward to in the next life. Instead I got a...
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Who do Catholics get ashes?

I was introducing myself to some classes at Dana Hills High School last Ash Wednesday and I couldn't figure out why so many students were...
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