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The Norbertine Fathers of St. Michael’s Abbey

Day Twenty Two: The Great Fast, 2025

We can draw near to Jesus Christ, Our Savior, when we pour mercy out among the people around us--especially those closest to us.

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Day Twenty One: The Great Fast, 2025

On this third Friday of Lent, as we keep the passion of Christ so firmly fixed before our eyes, let it transform us. When people see us, they should understand something more about the beauty and power of the cross.

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Day Twenty: The Great Fast, 2025

All of us are people of prayer, and all of us participate in the priesthood of Jesus Christ. Prayer is a pleasing sacrifice to God, and the whole church offers it together: priests, consecrated religious, and lay people.

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Day Nineteen: The Great Fast, 2025

The aim of fasting is stripping away what stands in between us and God. It is striving after a clearer vision of the face of God so that we can see Him more clearly in our own life.

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A Message of Encouragement from Fr. Edmund

Against temptation, we must turn again and again to the holy face of Christ and to his Sacred Heart.

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Day Eighteen: The Great Fast, 2025

Our fasting is intimately united with the other pillars of Lent: with the prayer that we are so eager to throw ourselves into, and with the almsgiving, the mercy that we are so eager to spread.

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Day Seventeen: The Great Fast, 2025

Take courage this Monday morning. Take courage that Christ's work, already well underway, is powerful within you.

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Day Sixteen: The Great Fast, 2025

We all need to be reminded during our Lenten fasting and penance just how good God is, and what joy comes with taking refuge in Him.

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Day Fifteen: The Great Fast, 2025

Remember, your is united with the whole universal church, which is doing penance right now as we prepare to receive the gifts that God has prepared for us. And it is united with Christ's Passion.

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Day Fourteen: The Great Fast, 2025

What is "fear of the Lord"? For us, the fear of God consists wholly in love, and perfect love of God brings our fear of Him to its perfection.

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A Message of Encouragement from Fr. Claude

When we fast, we increase the capacity of our souls to be generous with others. We increase the capacity of our souls to share the goods that we have received from God.

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Day Thirteen: The Great Fast, 2025

We are like the prodigal son in that beautiful Gospel parable. And our Lenten observance is our return to the Father like prodigal children, confident that there's going to be a fatted calf and a ring and a magnificent garment for us to wear--that there is going to be reconciliation.

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Day Twelve: The Great Fast, 2025

Every contour of our life, every struggle of our life, every difficulty in our Lenten observance is united with our blessed savior.

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