News March 6, 2025
Embracing Lent: Choose from 10 Powerful Faith-builders
- The Stations of the Cross (by Good News Ministries Artists)
Various artists who read GNM’s Good News Reflections contributed their talents for the Stations of the Cross. They represent the globalness and diversity of the Catholic Church while honoring Christ.
- The Way of the Cross
Pray our Stations of the Cross to find relief for your own sufferings. Embrace your trials as union with Jesus on the journey to glory. You are entering into an interactive prayer experience. Our sufferings have eternal value if we unite them to the Passion of Christ.
- The Healing Wounds of Jesus
Mystical and Scientific Insights into Christ’s Actual Passion. This meditation is a series of descriptions of how Jesus suffered for you, as revealed by saints and mystics through the centuries and by scientists today. The quotes here have been compiled to help you find healing through Jesus, to give you a deeper experience of His love, and to inspire you to return that love more fully.
- FORGIVEN: A Meditation on the Passion of Christ Through the Eyes of Peter and Judas
Written with a powerfully life-changing twist, this is not the usual Passion story. “Forgiven” shows the passion of Christ as seen through the eyes of Peter and Judas. Each react in different ways to the final days and crucifixion of Jesus. One chooses forgiveness and the other ends his life in terrible guilt.
- Christ’s Passion for you: A Virtual Retreat
This retreat can provide healing from your sufferings. Take time to meditate and reflect on each segment. Use the photos to help you imagine what the experience of Christ’s sufferings was like for him. As you do this, remember that he did it for you. This is how much he cares about you. You are about to enter into the timelessness of what Christ did for you, when the experiences of Jesus during the first Holy Week are also the now moment of your life.
- Passion Spirituality: Intimacy with Jesus
Passion Spirituality is the joining of our sufferings to the Passion of Christ. When we meditate on this, we enter into a much deeper intimacy with Jesus and we even discover great joy! This section of Good News Ministries WordBytes is a Virtual Retreat tailored to your own needs. Jesus is here with you, ready to provide you with healing and recovery from the hurts and sufferings of your life.
- Examination of Conscience based on the 10 Commandments
You can live a holy life! “What God commands He makes possible by grace,” says paragraph 2083 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Jesus gives us His Holy Spirit to help us understand and obey the Father’s commands. God’s laws were made for our benefit! Our obedience opens us to receive more of God: more of His love, His help, His comfort, His healing, etc. “The gift of the Commandments is the gift of God Himself” (para. 2059).
- What Lenten Sacrifice Are You Making?
What sacrifice for Lent are you making to enhance your journey to Easter? Just as Jesus knew what sacrifice He would have to make, we should discern what God is calling us to do. Sacrifices are supposed to make a difference. What’s the point of giving up candy for Lent if it doesn’t bring us spiritually closer to Christ?
- What’s the Value of Sacrifices? (video)
Mother Teresa of Calcutta said, “Lent is a time when we relive the Passion of Christ. Let it not be just a time when our feelings are roused, but let it be a change that comes through cooperation with God’s grace in real sacrifices of self.” In this video reflection, Terry Modica examines how our sacrifices can make a difference beyond our own lives when we have true solidarity with the Passion of Christ.
- Why must we abstain from meat on Fridays during Lent?
During biblical times, meat was considered a food of rejoicing, because it was not always available and because its protein was an important food for good health and strength. During Lent, the Church asks us to abstain from eating meat — the food of rejoicing — in mourning for Jesus because of the pain and death he had to endure for our sake.
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Thank you for reading this newsletter.
Your servant in Christ,
Terry Modica, Author, Speaker, Podcaster,
Executive Director, Good News Ministries
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