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This Insights eNewsletter was sent to subscribers on February 20, 2009.

eNewsletter Subject: Living Joy

Among many other things, the person of Jesus Christ is living joy, and those who are joined to Christ share in this joy. In fact, Our Lord once summarized His mission thus: "These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full" (Jn 15:11).

Yet often we experience our Faith as hard work, and the majority of the resources offered by CatholicCulture.org may reasonably be perceived as designed to make that work more effective. So are we missing something here? That's the question I raise in this week's column: Am I Writing about Nothing Today?.

Joyful or not, Lent is nearly upon us, as Ash Wednesday falls on the 25th. Within the context of Lent, a new website we've reviewed might be of particular interest. See The Purgatory Project which offers a spiritual work of mercy: enrolling deceased relatives and friends who may need prayers.

I'd also like to call attention to the many documents we've now posted on the quarrels over religious liberty and ecumenism which we had earlier reported would be at the center of talks between the SSPX and the Vatican. In addition to those mentioned in my previous message, see:...

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