28 Mar Palm Sunday
Day Forty
+ May we humble our self as we walk the Passion of Jesus – dying to our old self of sin, failure, and doubt and finding courage, obedience, and love in His infinite forgiveness and generosity+
28 Mar From Your Pastor | Palm Sunday
“What really matters in life: loving God and serving others. For life is measured by love. In these holy days, in our homes, let us stand before the Crucified One — look, look at the crucifix, the fullest measure of God’s love for us, and before the God who serves us to the point of giving his life, and let us ask for the grace to live in order to serve. May we not be concerned about what we lack, but what good we can do for others. Jesus ‘emptied himself, taking the form of a servant’ … His love for us led him to sacrifice himself and to take upon himself our sins. This astonishes us: God saved us by taking upon himself all the punishment of our sins. Without complaining, but with the humility, patience and obedience of a servant, and purely out of love. What can we do in comparison with God, who served us even to the point of being betrayed and abandoned? We can refuse to betray him for whom we were created, and not abandon what really matters in our lives. We were put in this world to love him and our neighbors. Everything else passes away, only this remains. Jesus says to each one of us: ‘Courage, open your heart to my love. You will feel the consolation of God who sustains you.’ Beloved, let us set out with faith this Holy Week, in which Jesus suffers, dies and rises again.”
— Pope Francis
FROM YOUR PASTOR
YOUR FORTY DAYS OF LENT…
Have You OPENED YOUR HEART to Jesus?
Has His ultimate Sacrifice For You CHANGED YOUR HEART?
Have His Words of Closeness, Compassion, and Tenderness MOVED YOU INTO SERVICE TO OTHERS?
Have Your Lenten Sacrifices INSPIRED YOU TO ADOPT THEM AS A WAY OF LIFE on Easter Monday?
YOUR ANSWERS will define YOUR LENTEN JOURNEY!
THINK about them…PRAY on them…ACT on them…
+May God Bless You and Keep You+
27 Mar Saturday of the Fifth Week of Lent
Day Thirty-Nine
+ May the intercession of St Joseph guide us in our daily battles to be attentive to God and those around us…so that we may stand up after every fall, look again at God and reorient ourselves, renew our trust in His Providential Care, and receive the grace to look at the world anew with eyes of purity and hope+
26 Mar Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent
Day Thirty-Eight
+ May the God who probes our mind and heart, as He tests the just, place in our heart the steadfast Trust of the Prophet Jeremiah in the face of our friends who may become our enemies as we live our faith…and the Understanding of Jesus who, while His words and works were rejected by those He came to save, realized that the Power behind Him was greater than the task before Him+
25 Mar Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent
Day Thirty-Seven
+ May God’s reliability embodied in Jesus’ statement, ‘I AM,’ inspire in us the unconditional Faith and Obedience of Abraham, the Spiritual Conviction of Jesus, and the Humility, Perseverance, and Obedience of Mary and Joseph+
24 Mar Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent
Day Thirty-Six
+ May we find God’s saving power in the Spiritual Freedom from hatred, prejudice, and sin which comes from our love of Jesus and a life centered in His Words+
23 Mar Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent
Day Thirty-Five
+ May our Spiritual Life progress from the tacit accommodation of good and evil in our life when we sin to a declaration of God’s Providence in our life…so that when we call on Jesus in our trials and distress we experience in their response the True Power of ‘I AM’+
22 Mar Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent
Day Thirty-Four
+ May the Trust of Susanna, the Clarity of Daniel, and the Humility of the Adulterous Woman allow us to resist the temptations, seductions, and lies of our culture and companions…and help us to realize that God saves those who hope in Him and that Jesus will not judge us but WILL pass judgment on the actions of our free will +
21 Mar Fifth Sunday of Lent
Day Thirty-Three
+ May we grow in righteousness as we discover that who we are and what we have is defined not by the world, but through our relationship with Jesus, whose Heavenly Father provides justice, mercy, care, and grace to all who honor Him+
20 Mar Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent
Day Thirty-Two
+ May we grow in faith and courage like Nicodemus who sought justice for Jesus, in hope like the Prophet Jeremiah who sought truth through an open mind and heart, and in love through a life centered on the Lamb of God in whose sacrifice is our triumph over evil+