Buffalo Diocese focusing on hope and healing during Ash Wednesday, Lent

Pope Francis: Lent is a time to accept our fragility, rekindle hope in Jesus

ROME— Pope Francis said the Lenten journey reminds the Church that hope in Jesus Christ ultimately overcomes fears of fragility, weakness, and the brevity of life. “Made of ashes and earth, we experience fragility through illness, poverty, and the hardships that can suddenly befall us and our families,” the pope said in his homily prepared for Ash […] The post Pope Francis: Lent is a time to accept our fragility, rekindle hope in Jesus appeared …

Pope text: Ash Wednesday teaches human fragility, Gospel hope

ROME (CNS) -- The journey of Lent "unfolds amid the remembrance of our fragility and the hope that, at the end of the road, the Risen Lord is waiting for us," Pope Francis wrote in his homily for Ash Wednesday. "Indeed, the ashes help to remind us that our lives are fragile and insignificant: we

Parishioners think of Pope Francis as Lent begins

It's Ash Wednesday, and Pope Francis isn't far from many minds as the holy season begins.

Buffalo Diocese focusing on hope and healing during Ash Wednesday, Lent

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) -- Church pews at Christian churches throughout Western New York might be filled on Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday is one of the busiest days of the year for the Buffalo Diocese. "If you talk to any church secretary, they will tell you the phone rings more on Ash Wednesday then it does on the 23rd and 24th of December," said Father Bill Quinlivan, a pastor of Catholic Family Parishes in South Buffalo. "Our hope is always that …