Fr. John Burns invites you on a journey this Lent to strip away your confusion, attachments, and sin so you can return to the Lord and undergo real and lasting conversion using "Return" his Lenten guided journal for prayer and meditation.
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8 min
Conclusion: Easter
Alleluia! He is risen! In this video, Fr. John Burns ponders the magnitude of the resurrection—how it changed the created world, permanently and forever. He is risen as he said he…
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8 min
Holy Week: Weaving Our Stories with the Paschal Mystery
In this video, Fr. John Burns reflects on the meaning of this holiest of weeks. It is during Holy Week that we see the completion of God’s plan, a divine rescue mission, to take on…
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6 min
Week Five: Rend Your Hearts, Not Your Garments, and Return to the Lord, Your God
In week five, Fr. John Burns focuses on the quote from the prophet Joel to “rend your hearts, not your garments”. The prophet Joel is calling us to amend our lives, return to the L…
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12 min
Week Four: Return to Me with Weeping and Mourning
In week four, Fr. John Burns reflects on weeping and lamentation as a remedy for coming to terms with the reality that things in life do not always go as we want. In the Bible, the…
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10 min
Week Three: Return to Me with Fasting
In week three, Fr. John Burns reflects on the practice of fasting to return to the Lord. Fr. John affirms for us that it is in our suffering—our experiences of betrayal and rejecti…
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8 min
Week Two: Return to Me with Your Whole Heart
In week two, Fr. John Burns focuses on the passage from the prophet Joel in which the Lord calls his people to return to him with their whole heart. We are reminded in this passage…
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Week One: Return to Me
In week one, Fr. John Burns explains the significance of the temptation of Jesus in the desert and how we can learn from Jesus’s example of confronting the devil. In each of the th…
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7 min
Ash Wednesday
Fr. John Burns explains how the season of Lent calls us to return to the Lord, and renounce all those things of the world that separate us from God. Lent begins with the practice o…
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6 min
Introduction
Fr. John Burns introduces you to the pillars of Lent—prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Fr. John encourages you to reflect on what practices you will commit to this Lent and how they…
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2 min
Join Fr. John Burns this Lent with Return, a Guided Journal for Prayer and Meditation
Fr. John Burns, author of Adore, invites us to enter the desert and journey with him this Lent using his journal, Return. Order your copy of Return today. https://www.avemariapress…