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The ghastly weather seems to have brought out the inner Michelangelo in some people — and these creations below are two clever examples. Even snowmen (and women) can have a vocation! The first one, a friar, comes from the Facebook page of someone at Franciscan University in Steubenville. The second comes (of course) from The…

 Prayer to Our Lady of Lourdes Hail Mary, poor and humble Woman, Blessed by the Most High! Virgin of hope, dawn of a new era, We join in your song of praise, to celebrate the Lord’s mercy, to proclaim the coming of the Kingdom and the full liberation of humanity. Hail Mary, lowly handmaid of…

And one of those dummies would have to include Your Humble Blogger — who had no idea until a couple years ago that, in fact, it’s not really 40 days.  (They don’t count Sundays.)  Anyway, there’s a lot of stuff all of us need to know about the season that will be starting on February…

My sister in suburban Maryland (Howard County) reports that they’re getting hammered. Again. On top of the three feet or so they got last weekend, another foot or more is piling up. She sent me the picture below.  It was taken Wednesday afternoon.  Somewhere, in all that snow, alongside the lamp post and winding between…

On so many levels. It’s a PSA from the UK. H/T The A.

Ash Wednesday is only a week away, and the purple will come out and the “Alleluias” will be silenced. So for now, enjoy this latest rendition — and a gorgeous one, at that — of a perennial favorite of The Bench. It’s Leonard Cohen’s mysteriously beautiful and enigmatic “Hallelujah,” performed by Justin Timberlake and Matt…

Brooklyn, New York. February 10, 2010. Photo by Associated Press

One of the things that has astonished me during my  diaconate is how often people ask me the same question. It happens with remarkable consistency. They’re almost always embarrassed to bring it up. And the answer seems to leave them surprised. It happened again yesterday, when I appeared on Lino Rulli’s “The Catholic Guy” radio…

So it would seem, judging from the magazine cover below, supplied by the sharp-eyed observers over at the Huffington Post.

And to think: more is on the way. 
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