This is the one day of the year in our secular society where a celibate Catholic gets top-billing, marquee treatment. There were probably three saints called Valentine, one of whom history says is entombed in Rome’s catacombs.
But the origin of Valentine’s Day is in a medieval social custom, so it’s not like a long, lost [...]

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No, we don’t mean our favorite song by the Psychedelic Furs, which was given a short second life a couple of years ago by the Adam Sandler-Drew Barrymore vehicle 50 First Dates. But now that we brought it up, did you ever wonder where they got that phrase, ‘the ghost in you’? Check out Corinthians [...]

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If spiritual growth is about stripping down the ego, the Imposition of Ashes on the first day of Lent is a powerful and public ritual of liberation
I did confession (Ash Wednesday) and received the imposition of ashes. I’ve never felt so stripped naked in public as when I kneeled below the altar, and the priest [...]

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