Lent:
Discipline and History (CUF Faith Fact) How did Lent
arise? What is its current discipline, and what is its history?
Daily
Penance, Days of Penance (CUF Faith Fact) What does the
Church teach about daily penance? What are the days of penance, and how ought
Catholics to observe them?
Pope Paul VI's Apostolic Constitution Paenitemini (1966), which governs the penitential
discipline of the Church
The National Conference of Catholic Bishops' (now the USCCB), Pastoral Statement on Penance and Abstinence
(1966), which applies that universal discipline to the United States and
offers recommendations for Lent.
From Our Founder
When we see the failings of many around us, do we use those failings of
others as a pretext for failings of our own: for discouragement (which is in
itself a defect of faith) or for anger (which puts us in danger of hell
fire)? Or does the sight of them drive us deeper into the arms of Christ,
into deeper contrition, into a deeper awareness of our own need of mercy, a
deeper faith, and more loving service of the truth?
H. Lyman Stebbins
1983
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