St. Matthew Religious Education at 25 Wilkins Road, S.W., Winder, GA 30680 US - NEWS & INFORMATION
NEWS & INFORMATION
HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF LENT
“Lent used to be very special,” comment many Catholics these days. “Years ago in grade school we used to give up candy and compete to see who could raise more money to save pagan babies. Lent meant avoiding parties and movies and making the Stations of the Cross on Fridays. Once there was a strict Lenten fast; hardly anything is left of the old fast now. Lent used to mean something; now we are supposed to choose our own penances and nobody knows what Lent means.”
There is no denying that Lenten practice has changed for U.S. Catholics in the last few years. In 1966, Pope Paul VI issued a document signaling a change in the church’s practice of penance. After saying that he felt obliged to remind Catholics of the important divine command to do penance, Pope Paul declared that the kingdom of God requires a change of heart – that inner conversion must accompany external penances.
After commending the time-honored combination of prayer/fasting/charity as the “fundamental means of complying with the divine precept of penitence,” Pope Paul established Ash Wednesday and Good Friday as days of fast and abstinence and the Fridays of Lent as days of abstinence.
The Church has not given up on penance. In fact, the time-honored trio of prayer, fasting and works of charity is recommended as much now as ever.
Prayer.
"OUR STORE"
Hey Everybody, we have moved store display cases to the Education Bldg and have opened a self-serve store with the original name "OUR STORE."
Do you get religious items in the mail such as rosaries, medals, books, prayer cards, etc? Do you have new religious items you don't want?
Please bring it in. Somebody may want it for a reasonable price, and the education fund will benefit.
Please bring it in. Somebody may want it for a reasonable price, and the education fund will benefit.
Thank you.
We have a new page
Its called "Links" and will take you to the "Vatican", "The Holy See" and "The National Council of Bishops". You can use the search engine for the "New American Bible" to look up scriptures or get a list of chapters and verses where a certain subject is mentioned. There is a Catholic Dictionary, a text translator and more.
Try it out, there is a wealth of information here.
Hints for using this web site;
PAGES
- To select a page;
- The Blue rectangles on the upper left of the screen list the pages available.
- To make your selection, click on the one you want.
- The Blue rectangles on the upper left of the screen list the pages available.
- To exit this web site and return to our Church site;
- Click on "Saint Matthew Catholic Church". This is located on each page under the heading and above the Blue line.
- To exit our web host;
- Click on the red "X" in the upper right hand corner of your screen.
ARTICLES
Articles cover subjects such as general information, policies, request for help, forms, etc.
- Articles are listed on the upper right side of the screen.
- Individual articles are separated by subject and listed in alphabetical order.
- The use of different colors is to group the articles by subject even further.