Unless You Do Penance

The Soul of Prayer
In this powerful and insighful series, you’ll encounter the true meaning behind the traditional threefold activity of Lent: prayer, fasting and almsgiving.  As you listen, you’ll learn how penance was established in the Garden of Eden, why charity or alms-giving “covers a multitude of sins,” how fasting is “the soul of prayer” and why our Lord Himself commanded it.

In addition, along with encouraging well known Lenten practices such as meditation on the Passion narratives in the Gospels and praying the Stations of the Cross and the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary, Father reveals the nearly forgotten spiritual secret of finding your own “Lenten island.”

Now you’ll be able to follow in the footsteps of the great saints and discern how to go to where God can be found most fully and most easily in your own life.

Participate In His Passion
In this modern world where such things as penance, mortifications and bodily denial are sometimes seen as an offense to human dignity, Father Collins reveals to us that it is our Lord’s sacrifice on the Cross that truly provides dignity to man.  As Father Collins says, it is our penance and prayer that enables us to participate in His Passion.

(3 talks)