Reflection - Butler County Times-Gazette

Reflection - Butler County Times-Gazette

For Christians, we are now at the midway point of our Lenten Journey to Easter Sunday and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Jesus says to us, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.” (Matthew 16:24-25). A fundamental questions that the Christian disciple must ask oneself is, “Do I wish…

Lenten Reflection From Bishop Erik Varden

Bishop Erik Varden, OCSO, a Cistercian Trappist, converted to Catholicism in 2002, and, after years of study at Cambridge and Rome – he is an expert in Syriac – was ordained to the priesthood on the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in 2011, and a decade later, was consecrated bishop of Trondheim, Norway on October 3rd, 2020. Catholics comprise only about 3.8% of the population of Norway, the Faith nearly wiped out by the Protestant revolt. But …