Where the world settles for passing pleasures, the Church calls us to live for an eternal Kingdom. Oftentimes, this call is difficult, and every person who resolves to follow Christ will have to bear a weighty cross. Those who struggle with gender confusion carry a particularly challenging cross that the world would rather ignore.
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Lent can be a challenging season… but the glory that comes at Easter is amazing! See if we can predict how you’re probably going to celebrate!
This season is all about detaching ourselves from the comforts of this world so that we can cling only to Christ, the source of our fulness of life. There are a variety of ways we can do that, but if you’re looking for a specific, practical way to dive into this season, consider joining The Living Person, who we’ve partnered with, to launch the 1-1-1 Lenten Challenge.
I am right in the thick of it too. I am no stranger to feeling like everything is out of my control, like I am knee deep in all the things, like everything’s a mess… like I am a mess.
As you navigate the single season of your life, it will be tempting to default to dating to “fix your loneliness” or to fit in. But trust me: if you are single in high school, that’s OK.
All these changes signal the start of a very important season, but in order to get the best out of Advent, we have to do a little bit more than decking the halls and putting the good silver out.
Ascend is a lectionary-based resource that walks any reader through the Sunday Mass readings (from the first Sunday in Advent all the way through Christ the King). Ascend provides clarity to the readings by overviewing important connections, word definitions, background information, and challenges the reader to reflect on the readings through prayer, journaling, and action. Ascend successfully educates and empowers us to be fully ready to receive the Word of God at Mass on Sunday.
Our society has conditioned us as young women to believe that the more skin we show the more empowered we become. But this could not be further from the truth.
