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This article has free access for all visitors. By Emily Stimpson. Many saints practiced self-mortification, but in today's hedonistic society the discipline of denying one's bodily appetites is largely misunderstood

Robert P. Lockwood: 'They are the magi'

A true story about love and sacrificial giving that could rival O. Henry’s classic Christmas tale

Readers share how they die to themselves at Lent

Responses to OSV's question range from common, such as forgoing sweets, to unusual, such as not crossing legs.

Prayer as an offering

By Msgr. M. Francis Mannion. The most profound kind of prayer is that in which we respond and yield to God

Practice Sacrificial Love

Homily Background for June 8, 2008 - Year A

Our Take: Gamers reach out to widow, baby

Recent tragedy demonstrates that playing video games — rather than just having an isolating effect — can create bonds and help to build a sense of community

Our Take: A fish story that’s food for thought

Abstinence is making a sacrifice that feels like a sacrifice.

Opening the Word Column: Found and fed

By Carl Olson. Receiving Eucharist is participation in sacrifice, which nourishes our deep longing for Christ

Openers: An example of Catholic courage from 19th-century Africa

This column has free access for all visitors. By John Norton. When discouraged by our own failings or those of our contemporary Catholics, it helps to remember inspiring people like St. Charles Lwanga

November 8, Thirty-Second Sunday

Our Sunday Visitor's My Daily Visitor for November 8, 2009, reading, feast of the day, saint, Bible verse, meditation, and prayer.

No One's Favor

By Msgr. Edward V. Rosack. Priests are called to humility, service and sacrifice after the example of Christ.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta saw sacrifice as 'necessary fuel for love,' author says

In Focus article. By Emily Stimpson. Start small and gradually build, co-founder of Missionaries of Charity Fathers advises

March 17, St. Patrick

Our Sunday Visitor's My Daily Visitor, reading, feast of the day, saint, Bible verse, meditation, and prayer.

Mannion: What does it mean to call marriage a sacrament?

In matrimony, couples give themselves to each other in the model of Christ’s sacrifice on the cross. (Subscription required)

Lenten Readings and Saints

By Lorene Hanley Duquin

January 27, Tuesday Weekday

Our Sunday Visitor's My Daily Visitor, reading, feast, saint, Bible verse, meditation, and prayer.

January 16, Monday Weekday

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In Focus: Your Guide to Lent

This article has free access for all visitors. What are you doing for Lent this year? FREE PDF poster download.

In Focus: When it comes to sacrifice, mother knows best

By Emily Stimpson. Believe it or not, everything you need to know about sacrifice, you learned from her

In Focus: The Definitive Guide to Lent

This season, take the opportunity to respond to God's call to improve your life

In Focus: Saints sacrifice inspires life advocates

St. Gianna Beretta Molla Society has encountered many intercessions on behalf of pregnant women and children.

In Focus: Jesus to the Rescue

Through our Lord's sacrifice for us on the cross and his merciful love, we are saved from our sinfulness and energized to witness to others.

How ‘taking the discipline’ can get us into better spiritual shape

By Father Robert Barron. Ancient practice of corporal mortification can help curtail our earthly desires

Either growing or dying

Faith is a gift that must be tested and offered up through prayer, sacrifice, love and works

Editorial: Remembering love

Wherever Christians affirm the inherent worth of those around them — especially when it seems most difficult — the Gospel is there.

Editorial: Prayers for peace this Veterans Day

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. In its soldiers, America finds some of the best of itself.

Editorial: Faith at ground zero

Sept. 11 is seared into the nation’s consciousness, and the appropriate tribute should be profound, heartfelt, and reflective of a solemnity and a wisdom that is at its depth religious.

Column: English martyr's holy example

By Msgr. Owen F. Campion. What St. Edmund Campion’s sacrifice for the faith in Elizabethan England can teach Catholics today

Christ's death and resurrection

By Msgr. M. Francis Mannion. Seven ways of understanding Jesus’ death and what it achieved in relation to the Resurrection

Carl E. Olson: Life-giving communion through the Eucharist

God offers us the Blessed Sacrament so we can remain in life-giving communion with Christ.

Caretakers of God's gifts

By Leisa Anslinger. All that we have and are and will be is God’s, so we must be good stewards of his creation

Biblical high points

By Carl E. Olson. Isaac's sacrifice and the Transfiguration are transformational moments on mountaintops

August 5, St. Mary Major Basilica Dedication

Our Sunday Visitor's My Daily Visitor, reading, feast of the day, saint, Bible verse, meditation, and prayer.

August 28, Twenty-Second Sunday Ordinary Time

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April 29, Friday in the Octave of Easter

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April 21, Holy Thursday

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Almsgiving: It’s more than just writing a check

By Mary DeTurris Poust. In concert with prayer and fasting, the Lenten practice can deepen our intimacy with God

A giving sacrifice

Priestly celibacy enables us to devote ourselves entirely to the Church and her members.