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 What
is the purpose of the CWL and who is welcome?
 The objectives
of the League shall be to unite Catholic women of Canada:
- to
achieve individual and collective spiritual development
- to
promote the teachings of the Catholic Church.
- to
exemplify the Christian ideal in home and family life.
- to
protect the sanctity of human life
- to
enhance the role of A Catholic woman who is 16 and older can become a
member women in church and society
- to
recognize the human dignity of all people everywhere
- to
uphold and defend Christian education and values
in the modern world.
- to
contribute to the understanding and growth of religious freedom, social
justice, peace and harmony.
Fr. Kevin
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In a nutshell,
what exactly is the RCIA? And how would it apply to someone baptized a
protestant, but drawn to Catholicism?
Gerry
RCIA is the Rite of Christian
Initiation of Adults. It is the process by which someone who is not
Catholic is instructed and journeys into an understanding of the Catholic
faith, teachings, mysteries and relationship with Jesus Christ, Lord and
Savior. It is the usual process by which some one Baptized in another
denomination or a non-baptized person comes to accept or at least understand
the Catholic faith as encouraged and lived out in the Roman Catholic Church.
Fr. Kevin
Why are we given a grace day during Lent to NOT
follow our Lenten promises? The forty days does not include Sundays..
Why is that?
The answer to why we do not fast
on Sunday is wrapped up in the understanding of Lent itself. Lent
(springtime) is the forty days (not including Sundays) of fasting, prayer and
penitence before Easter. The origins - and duration - of Lent are related to
the development of Easter. (Remember Sunday is also referred to as little
Easter) During the first three centuries most Christians prepared for Easter
by fasting for only two or three days. (During the early centuries the
observance of the fast was rigid: only one meal a day was allowed and
flesh-meat and fish were forbidden.) In some places, this paschal fast was
extended to the entire week before Easter (the period now known as Holy
Week), In Rome this paschal fast originally may have lasted three weeks, but
by the fourth century it had developed into a lent of forty days, the time
Jesus was in the desert. Sunday because of it's direct connection to Easter,
thus the title little Easter, was seen as a time of feast not fast. As the
scriptures tell us when the bridegroom is with us we are to celebrate not
fast. Sunday not only is the bridegroom with us he also offers himself fully
to us in the form of his body and blood. Thus we are invited to celebrate
with the bridegroom not fast.
Fr. Kevin
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