...Forty is typically indicative of a time of testing, trial, penance, purification, and renewal. The number forty is used many times in both the Old and New Testaments: Mark 1:12-15:...
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Why is Lent 40 Days?
Octave of Easter and Divine Mercy Sunday
...of a great feast has its roots in the Old Testament. There are many Jewish feasts that lasted for eight days, for example, the feast of Passover and the feast...
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Just doing my job
...see our soldiers, police, or firefighters interviewed after their part in some dramatic event, and their response is “I’m just doing my job.” For us, as servant disciples of the...
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Patron Saint of Catholic Schools
...our Dominican Order, St. Thomas Aquinas. Thomas was born in southern Italy in 1225 of noble descent, and at 5 years old his parents gave him over to the Benedictine...
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