LaVonne Neff > LIVELY DUST

My friend Irene Groot decided to try the Lenten Experiment this year. "I recently sent off a couple of hundred dollars to a local soup...

Fifteen years ago next week, on my mother's 85th birthday and exactly one week before Ash Wednesday, my father died. Some months later...

Here’s an idea for Lent that will do more good than giving up desserts: Read a book about contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. It's not a pe...

In January of 2009 Mr Neff and I began a Lenten experiment. We wanted to see if we could eat adequate amounts of tasty and nutritious food o...

We did it! The only shopping I'm going to do tomorrow will be a couple of items for Easter Sunday, and I've decided that doesn't...

Want to make God laugh? Tell him your plans. My plan Get up at 5.45 for 6.30 Mass with imposition of ashes. Come home, eat a light breakfast...

Ash Wednesday--the day we're going to start our Lenten Experiment of eating on a food-stamp budget--is less than two weeks away, and ev...

Thanks to all of you who have responded to the post about Lenten plans. Several have sent recipes for cheap, tasty, nutritious food, and wit...

The good news: I'm old enough now that not even the Catholic church requires me to fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday (scroll to Cano...

I don't much like little books of canned devotions, whether topical, annual, or penitential (never mind that I've written several). ...

Here's an idea that could do more good than fish on Fridays (though as a fish lover, I suggest fish not only on Fridays but on Wednesd...

Reality You are dust, and to dust you shall return. Genesis 3:19 Compassion As a father has compassion for his children, so the Lord has com...