Advent is a season which lasts for approximately one month leading up to the Celebration of Christmas. During this season, we simultaneously prepare for both Advents of our Lord. His first Advent, in the Ancient Mediterranean world in the First Century, and his second Advent, whose hour only the Father knows, when he will come to judge the world in righteousness.

Faithfulness with our money must begin with the recognition that everything that we have we have received from God…The giving of our money to God is a symbolic representation of the giving of our whole selves and our whole lives back to God in thanksgiving for all that we have received from him.

On Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of Holy Week, the church celebrates something called the triduum sacrum. This is the name given to these “three holy days” leading up to Easter Sunday. Liturgically this is seen as one event, divided over the course of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Great Vigil on Saturday.

The season of Lent is a very good time to begin the practice of Confession, or to resume it if it’s been a while. If you are weighed down with guilt, you don't have to carry it alone. In the Sacrament of Confession, you are able to confess your sins to God in the presence of a Priest, receive counsel and comfort, and encounter the power of God's forgiveness.

We have now begun the season of Lent. This is a 40-day, penitential journey which is intended to help us prepare our hearts to more meaningfully enter into the joys of the resurrection at Easter.