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God is a spring of living water which flows unceasingly into the hearts of those who pray." <br> –St. Louis De Montfort</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Today's Meditation</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">I saw my Guardian Angel, who ordered me to follow him. In a moment I was in a misty place full of fire in which there was a great crowd of suffering souls. 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[I heard an interior voice] which said, My mercy does not want this, but justice demands it." <br> —St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, p. 35</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Verse</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"If we acknowledge our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from every wrongdoing."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; 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He was ordained a priest by the bishop of Jerusalem shortly after the legalization of Christianity in the Roman Empire. He was given the task of catechizing new Christians leading up to and immediately following their baptism. Later he himself became bishop of Jerusalem, and soon after his ordination a miraculous apparition of a cross appeared in the sky, visible to the whole city. Because St. Cyril defended Christ's full humanity and divinity against the Arian heresy, he was exiled from his bishopric three times in twenty years due to misunderstandings, intrigue, and politics. Saint Cyril of Jerusalem is one of the early Church Fathers and one of the most important sources for how the early Church celebrated the liturgy and sacraments during the first few decades after Christianity was legalized. For St. Cyril's work in catechesis he was named a Doctor of the Church by Pope Leo XIII in 1883. His feast day is March 18th.</p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-5 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-5"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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}/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-6" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="530" alt="1000005698" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4654/6801/original/1000005698.jpg?1710768557" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-7 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-7 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent <br> Lectionary: 251</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reading I</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Dn 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62 or 13:41c-62</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In Babylon there lived a man named Joakim, <br> who married a very beautiful and God-fearing woman, Susanna, <br> the daughter of Hilkiah; <br> her pious parents had trained their daughter <br> according to the law of Moses. <br> Joakim was very rich; <br> he had a garden near his house, <br> and the Jews had recourse to him often <br> because he was the most respected of them all.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">That year, two elders of the people were appointed judges, <br> of whom the Lord said, "Wickedness has come out of Babylon: <br> from the elders who were to govern the people as judges." <br> These men, to whom all brought their cases, <br> frequented the house of Joakim. <br> When the people left at noon, <br> Susanna used to enter her husband's garden for a walk. <br> When the old men saw her enter every day for her walk, <br> they began to lust for her. <br> They suppressed their consciences; <br> they would not allow their eyes to look to heaven, <br> and did not keep in mind just judgments.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">One day, while they were waiting for the right moment, <br> she entered the garden as usual, with two maids only. <br> She decided to bathe, for the weather was warm. <br> Nobody else was there except the two elders, <br> who had hidden themselves and were watching her. <br> "Bring me oil and soap," she said to the maids, <br> "and shut the garden doors while I bathe."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">As soon as the maids had left, <br> the two old men got up and hurried to her. <br> "Look," they said, "the garden doors are shut, and no one can see us; <br> give in to our desire, and lie with us. <br> If you refuse, we will testify against you <br> that you dismissed your maids because a young man was here with you."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"I am completely trapped," Susanna groaned. <br> "If I yield, it will be my death; <br> if I refuse, I cannot escape your power. <br> Yet it is better for me to fall into your power without guilt <br> than to sin before the Lord." <br> Then Susanna shrieked, and the old men also shouted at her, <br> as one of them ran to open the garden doors. <br> When the people in the house heard the cries from the garden, <br> they rushed in by the side gate to see what had happened to her. <br> At the accusations by the old men, <br> the servants felt very much ashamed, <br> for never had any such thing been said about Susanna.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">When the people came to her husband Joakim the next day, <br> the two wicked elders also came, <br> fully determined to put Susanna to death. <br> Before all the people they ordered: <br> "Send for Susanna, the daughter of Hilkiah, <br> the wife of Joakim." <br> When she was sent for, <br> she came with her parents, children and all her relatives. <br> All her relatives and the onlookers were weeping.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In the midst of the people the two elders rose up <br> and laid their hands on her head. <br> Through tears she looked up to heaven, <br> for she trusted in the Lord wholeheartedly. <br> The elders made this accusation: <br> "As we were walking in the garden alone, <br> this woman entered with two girls <br> and shut the doors of the garden, dismissing the girls. <br> A young man, who was hidden there, came and lay with her. <br> When we, in a corner of the garden, saw this crime, <br> we ran toward them. <br> We saw them lying together, <br> but the man we could not hold, because he was stronger than we; <br> he opened the doors and ran off. <br> Then we seized her and asked who the young man was, <br> but she refused to tell us. <br> We testify to this." <br> The assembly believed them, <br> since they were elders and judges of the people, <br> and they condemned her to death.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">But Susanna cried aloud: <br> "O eternal God, you know what is hidden <br> and are aware of all things before they come to be: <br> you know that they have testified falsely against me. <br> Here I am about to die, <br> though I have done none of the things <br> with which these wicked men have charged me."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">The Lord heard her prayer. <br> As she was being led to execution, <br> God stirred up the holy spirit of a young boy named Daniel, <br> and he cried aloud: <br> "I will have no part in the death of this woman." <br> All the people turned and asked him, "What is this you are saying?" <br> He stood in their midst and continued, <br> "Are you such fools, O children of Israel! <br> To condemn a woman of Israel without examination <br> and without clear evidence? <br> Return to court, for they have testified falsely against her."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Then all the people returned in haste. <br> To Daniel the elders said, <br> "Come, sit with us and inform us, <br> since God has given you the prestige of old age." <br> But he replied, <br> "Separate these two far from each other that I may examine them."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">After they were separated one from the other, <br> he called one of them and said: <br> "How you have grown evil with age! <br> Now have your past sins come to term: <br> passing unjust sentences, condemning the innocent, <br> and freeing the guilty, although the Lord says, <br> 'The innocent and the just you shall not put to death.' <br> Now, then, if you were a witness, <br> tell me under what tree you saw them together." <br> "Under a mastic tree," he answered. <br> Daniel replied, "Your fine lie has cost you your head, <br> for the angel of God shall receive the sentence from him <br> and split you in two." <br> Putting him to one side, he ordered the other one to be brought. <br> Daniel said to him, <br> "Offspring of Canaan, not of Judah, beauty has seduced you, <br> lust has subverted your conscience. <br> This is how you acted with the daughters of Israel, <br> and in their fear they yielded to you; <br> but a daughter of Judah did not tolerate your wickedness. <br> Now, then, tell me under what tree you surprised them together." <br> "Under an oak," he said. <br> Daniel replied, "Your fine lie has cost you also your head, <br> for the angel of God waits with a sword to cut you in two <br> so as to make an end of you both."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">The whole assembly cried aloud, <br> blessing God who saves those who hope in him. <br> They rose up against the two elders, <br> for by their own words Daniel had convicted them of perjury. <br> According to the law of Moses, <br> they inflicted on them <br> the penalty they had plotted to impose on their neighbor: <br> they put them to death. <br> Thus was innocent blood spared that day.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">OR:</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">The assembly condemned Susanna to death.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">But Susanna cried aloud: <br> "O eternal God, you know what is hidden <br> and are aware of all things before they come to be: <br> you know that they have testified falsely against me. <br> Here I am about to die, <br> though I have done none of the things <br> with which these wicked men have charged me."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">The Lord heard her prayer. <br> As she was being led to execution, <br> God stirred up the holy spirit of a young boy named Daniel, <br> and he cried aloud: <br> "I will have no part in the death of this woman." <br> All the people turned and asked him, <br> "What is this you are saying?" <br> He stood in their midst and continued, <br> "Are you such fools, O children of Israel! <br> To condemn a woman of Israel without examination <br> and without clear evidence? <br> Return to court, for they have testified falsely against her."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Then all the people returned in haste. <br> To Daniel the elders said, <br> "Come, sit with us and inform us, <br> since God has given you the prestige of old age." <br> But he replied, <br> "Separate these two far from each other that I may examine them."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">After they were separated one from the other, <br> he called one of them and said: <br> "How you have grown evil with age! <br> Now have your past sins come to term: <br> passing unjust sentences, condemning the innocent, <br> and freeing the guilty, although the Lord says, <br> 'The innocent and the just you shall not put to death.' <br> Now, then, if you were a witness, <br> tell me under what tree you saw them together." <br> "Under a mastic tree," he answered. <br> Daniel replied, "Your fine lie has cost you your head, <br> for the angel of God shall receive the sentence from him <br> and split you in two." <br> Putting him to one side, he ordered the other one to be brought. <br> Daniel said to him, "Offspring of Canaan, not of Judah, <br> beauty has seduced you, lust has subverted your conscience. <br> This is how you acted with the daughters of Israel, <br> and in their fear they yielded to you; <br> but a daughter of Judah did not tolerate your wickedness. <br> Now, then, tell me under what tree you surprised them together." <br> "Under an oak," he said. <br> Daniel replied, "Your fine lie has cost you also your head," <br> for the angel of God waits with a sword to cut you in two <br> so as to make an end of you both."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">The whole assembly cried aloud, <br> blessing God who saves those who hope in him. <br> They rose up against the two elders, <br> for by their own words Daniel had convicted them of perjury. <br> According to the law of Moses, <br> they inflicted on them <br> the penalty they had plotted to impose on their neighbor: <br> they put them to death. <br> Thus was innocent blood spared that day.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Responsorial Psalm</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">R. (4ab) Even though I walk in the dark valley I fear no evil; for you are at my side. <br> The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. <br> In verdant pastures he gives me repose; <br> Beside restful waters he leads me; <br> he refreshes my soul. <br> R. Even though I walk in the dark valley I fear no evil; for you are at my side. <br> He guides me in right paths <br> for his name's sake. <br> Even though I walk in the dark valley <br> I fear no evil; for you are at my side <br> With your rod and your staff <br> that give me courage. <br> R. Even though I walk in the dark valley I fear no evil; for you are at my side. <br> You spread the table before me <br> in the sight of my foes; <br> You anoint my head with oil; <br> my cup overflows. <br> R. Even though I walk in the dark valley I fear no evil; for you are at my side. <br> Only goodness and kindness follow me <br> all the days of my life; <br> And I shall dwell in the house of the LORD <br> for years to come. <br> R. Even though I walk in the dark valley I fear no evil; for you are at my side.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Verse before the Gospel</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Ez 33:11</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked man, says the Lord, <br> but rather in his conversion, that he may live.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Gospel</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jn 8:1-11</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. <br> But early in the morning he arrived again in the temple area, <br> and all the people started coming to him, <br> and he sat down and taught them. <br> Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman <br> who had been caught in adultery <br> and made her stand in the middle. <br> They said to him, <br> "Teacher, this woman was caught <br> in the very act of committing adultery. <br> Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. <br> So what do you say?" <br> They said this to test him, <br> so that they could have some charge to bring against him. <br> Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger. <br> But when they continued asking him, <br> he straightened up and said to them, <br> "Let the one among you who is without sin <br> be the first to throw a stone at her." <br> Again he bent down and wrote on the ground. <br> And in response, they went away one by one, <br> beginning with the elders. <br> So he was left alone with the woman before him. <br> Then Jesus straightened up and said to her, <br> "Woman, where are they? <br> Has no one condemned you?" <br> She replied, "No one, sir." <br> Then Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. <br> Go, and from now on do not sin any more."</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-8 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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}/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-11" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <a target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=143181.8916.1.18adb5a8611bb6761b53d0531756ceda"> <img width="80" alt="wauorg" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/1150/7480/original/wauorg.jpg?1473769568" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-12 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-12 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">DAILY MEDITATION: JOHN 8:1-11 <br> Neither do I condemn you. (John 8:11)</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In today's Gospel, everyone is waiting on Jesus, expecting him to cast immediate judgment on the woman brought to him. Yet his patience amid all the tension is striking. He will not reprove those who are trying to use the law to entrap him. Nor is he scandalized by this woman's actions. Jesus knows that this is not the time for judgment and condemnation. Rather, it's the time for a fresh outpouring of mercy for anyone willing to receive it.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">This is why Jesus came into the world—so that even serious sin could be forgiven and blotted out. As he said later, "I do not judge anyone" (John 8:15). He did not condemn the woman who had committed adultery. He did not condemn the accusers who were allied against him. And he won't condemn you! As St. Paul wrote, "There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus" (Romans 8:1).</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">What will Jesus do instead? He will forgive you. As this Gospel passage shows, you should never be afraid to come to him with your sins and ask for his mercy. He will never reject you. Because of his great love for you, he will always welcome you back to him. But he won't stop there. As he did with the woman in this story, he will invite you to sin no more (John 8:11). It's up to you to accept that invitation, every day if necessary.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">There will come a day when Jesus, enthroned with his Father, will sit as our judge. But today is not that day. Today Jesus says, "Neither do I condemn you" (John 8:11). He says, "Today I have wiped the slate clean. Leave your sin behind, and walk with me in love and in the freedom I have won for you."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">The woman caught in adultery thought her time was up; she thought her sin would lead to her death. But Jesus wants all of us to live! So come to him without fear, confess your sin, and let him pour out his mercy on you. Most likely you will fall again, maybe even today. But even if you do, know that Jesus is always willing to offer you his love, his mercy—and a new tomorrow!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Lord Jesus, I praise you for a mercy that is new every morning."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daniel 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62 <br> Psalm 23:1-6</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-13 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In the Gospel today we heard: <br> <em style="font-style: italic;">"Let the one among you who is without sin <br> be the first to throw a stone at her." <br> Again he bent down and wrote on the ground. <br> And in response, they went away one by one, <br> beginning with the elders. <br> So he was left alone with the woman before him. <br> Then Jesus straightened up and said to her, <br> "Woman, where are they? <br> Has no one condemned you?" <br> She replied, "No one, sir." <br> Then Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. <br> Go, and from now on do not sin any more......"</em> end quote.</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-17 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-17 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">From Bishop Barron; <br> "Friends, today's Gospel presents the story of the woman caught in adultery, which is one of the clearest demonstrations of what René Girard called the scapegoat mechanism. <br> The scribes and Pharisees bring to Jesus a woman they had caught in adultery. Where must they have been standing and how long must they have been waiting in order to catch her? Their eagerness to find a victim is testimony to the insatiable human need for scapegoats. <br> The novelty of the Gospel is revealed in Jesus' refusal to contribute to the energy of the gathering storm: "Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her." Jesus directs the energy of scapegoating violence back toward the accusers. He unveils the dangerous secret that the unstable order of the society has been predicated upon scapegoating. The Church Fathers emphasized this point with a neat interpretive move: they imagined that Jesus was writing in the sand none other than the sins of those who were threatening the woman. <br> Then we see, at least in seminal form, the new order: "Go, and from now on do not sin any more." The connection between Jesus and the woman is not the consequence of condemnation but rather the fruit of forgiveness offered and accepted. " end quote.</p> <hr> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">There were those who brought the adulterous woman before the Lord...the accusers. <br> In our lives we have accusers too...whether people...or evil spirits. But...what about our own conscience? Hod that thought. <br> Then...our Lord asks all to reach their consciences in order to accuse. <br> They all left them alone. <br> And so our Lord dismisses her after forgiving her. <br> Now she must deal with her conscience. <br> Because we will all meet our Lord on judgement day, we must consider our conscience today. We must present ourselves without sin. <br> Sounds impossible, right? <br> But our Lord promises that with Him all things are possible. <br> And so the story of what happened to her is an invitation to all of us. <br> We may not be adulterers, but any infidelity to God is an adulterous affair because we choose other loves before Him!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">May we all have learned today to have a more pure heart for God...loving Him above all other loves.</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-18 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; 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Nevertheless I am continually with thee; thou dost hold my right hand. Thou dost guide me with thy counsel, and afterward thou wilt receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but thee? And there is nothing upon earth that I desire besides thee. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever." <br> –Psalm 73:21-26</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Verse</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Persevere in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving; at the same time, pray for us, too, that God may open a door to us for the word, to speak of the mystery of Christ, for which I am in prison, that I may make it clear, as I must speak. Conduct yourselves wisely toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunity. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you know how you should respond to each one." <br> –Colossians 4:2-6</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-2 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-2"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: right !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="285" alt="asaint" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4649/2393/original/asaint.png?1710509295" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-4 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Louise De Marillac</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Louise De Marillac (1591-1660) was born in Paris, France to a noble family and received her education at a Dominican convent. Her mother died shortly after her birth, and her father when she was sixteen years of age. It was then necessary for her to decide her vocation, and being dissuaded from entering religious life by her spiritual director, as was her desire, she married and bore a son. Later she worried that she had rejected a divine call to the religious life, and vowed that should her husband die, she would not remarry. Two years later her husband died after a long illness. During this time she met a holy priest, St. Vincent de Paul, and placed herself under his spiritual direction. Through his influence she worked among the poor and disadvantaged in Paris, and co-founded the Sisters of Charity with him in 1642. After writing their rule of life she traveled around France establishing her new religious order to work in hospitals, orphanages, and other institutions that aided the poor. She was especially gifted at spiritual guidance and served as the superior of the Sisters of Charity in Paris until her death. St. Louise De Marillac is the patron saint of social workers, the sick, widows, and against the loss of parents. 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}/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-6" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="510" alt="a1" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4649/2397/original/a1.png?1710509306" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-7 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-7 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reading 1 Wis 2:1a, 12-22</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">The wicked said among themselves, <br> thinking not aright: <br> "Let us beset the just one, because he is obnoxious to us; <br> he sets himself against our doings, <br> Reproaches us for transgressions of the law <br> and charges us with violations of our training. <br> He professes to have knowledge of God <br> and styles himself a child of the LORD. <br> To us he is the censure of our thoughts; <br> merely to see him is a hardship for us, <br> Because his life is not like that of others, <br> and different are his ways. <br> He judges us debased; <br> he holds aloof from our paths as from things impure. <br> He calls blest the destiny of the just <br> and boasts that God is his Father. <br> Let us see whether his words be true; <br> let us find out what will happen to him. <br> For if the just one be the son of God, he will defend him <br> and deliver him from the hand of his foes. <br> With revilement and torture let us put him to the test <br> that we may have proof of his gentleness <br> and try his patience. <br> Let us condemn him to a shameful death; <br> for according to his own words, God will take care of him." <br> These were their thoughts, but they erred; <br> for their wickedness blinded them, <br> and they knew not the hidden counsels of God; <br> neither did they count on a recompense of holiness <br> nor discern the innocent souls' reward.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Responsorial Psalm Ps 34:17-18, 19-20, 21 and 23</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. (19a) The Lord is close to the brokenhearted.</strong> <br> The LORD confronts the evildoers, <br> to destroy remembrance of them from the earth. <br> When the just cry out, the LORD hears them, <br> and from all their distress he rescues them. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted.</strong> <br> The LORD is close to the brokenhearted; <br> and those who are crushed in spirit he saves. <br> Many are the troubles of the just man, <br> but out of them all the LORD delivers him. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted.</strong> <br> He watches over all his bones; <br> not one of them shall be broken. <br> The LORD redeems the lives of his servants; <br> no one incurs guilt who takes refuge in him. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted.</strong></p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Verse Before the Gospel Mt 4:4b</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">One does not live on bread alone, <br> but on every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Gospel Jn 7:1-2, 10, 25-30</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus moved about within Galilee; <br> he did not wish to travel in Judea, <br> because the Jews were trying to kill him. <br> But the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, <br> he himself also went up, not openly but as it were in secret.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, <br> "Is he not the one they are trying to kill? <br> And look, he is speaking openly and they say nothing to him. <br> Could the authorities have realized that he is the Christ? <br> But we know where he is from. <br> When the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from." <br> So Jesus cried out in the temple area as he was teaching and said, <br> "You know me and also know where I am from. <br> Yet I did not come on my own, <br> but the one who sent me, whom you do not know, is true. <br> I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me." <br> So they tried to arrest him, <br> but no one laid a hand upon him, <br> because his hour had not yet come.</p> <hr> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-8 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Meditation: John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><em style="font-style: italic;">I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me. (John 7:29)</em></p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Where are you from? How many times have you been asked that question? We usually respond with the name of the city, state, or country where we grew up or have lived for a long time. That place has become part of our identity. The way we talk, the foods we eat, the sports teams we root for—all these and more are often influenced by where we come from.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">The people in Jerusalem knew that Jesus was from Nazareth in Galilee. He probably even had a Galilean accent. And that was the problem. "When the Christ comes," they said, "no one will know where he is from" (John 7:27). Granted, one Old Testament prophecy said the Messiah would come from Bethlehem, the city of David (Micah 5:1). But Galilee? No way!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus didn't deny his roots: "You . . . know where I am from" (John 7:28). But his roots went much deeper than Nazareth. They went deeper even than his family ties. He was the Son of God who came from the Father who had sent him. That was the focal point around which everything else in his life—what he thought, said, and did—revolved.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">You were born to a specific family in a specific time and place, and this influences who you are today. But your deepest identity comes from God your Father. He created you, and by virtue of your Baptism, you have become his son or daughter. Like Jesus, that should be the focal point around which everything else in your life revolves.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Being deeply grounded in our identity as God's son or daughter will change us. It will affect what we choose to do with our time and energy. It will move us to pray and celebrate the sacraments. It will influence the way we relate to people and the way in which we speak to them. It will make us more aware of the needs of the poor. And it will give our lives purpose and meaning—because like Jesus, we, too, have been sent to proclaim the good news of God's merciful love.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">What an honor it is to be called a son or daughter of God!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Father, help me to live out my identity in you."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; 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line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In the Gospel today we heard: <br> <em style="font-style: italic;">"Some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, <br> "Is he not the one they are trying to kill? <br> And look, he is speaking openly and they say nothing to him. <br> Could the authorities have realized that he is the Christ? <br> But we know where he is from. <br> When the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from." <br> So Jesus cried out in the temple area as he was teaching and said, <br> "You know me and also know where I am from. <br> Yet I did not come on my own, <br> but the one who sent me, whom you do not know, is true. <br> I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me."......"</em> end quote.</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-17 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-17 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Judea was the place. This was the place where they wanted to kill him. The lion comes to mind. The lion of Judah. Why? Because we are speaking of the ones in Judea. If you've seen or heard about the "Lion King", which is also a famous animation film, you see that there is an evil lion brother that tries to kill the "King" so he can be the king. He kills the king as the king is trying to save his only son from being ran over by a herd in a canyon, all an evil plot disguised by the evil lion brother. The king's son, the cub is then accused and blamed and is banned by the evil uncle. The cub is raised outside of the kingdom. Eventually he makes his way back as a mature Lion. And eventually there is a fight, and the righteous Lion, the King's only son wins back the kingdom that was turning dark, into a barren landscape. <br> It's a good story and reminder of our Lord, if you think about it. <br> In beginning book of the the bible we hear: <br> "Judah, your brothers will praise you; your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; your father's sons will bow down to you. You are a lion's cub, Judah; you return from the prey, my son. Like a lion he crouches and lies down, like a lioness—who dares to rouse him? The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until he to whom it belongs shall come and the obedience of the nations shall be his. He will tether his donkey to a vine, his colt to the choicest branch; he will wash his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes. His eyes will be darker than wine, his teeth whiter than milk" (Genesis 49:8-12). <br> In the last book of the bible again we will hear about the Lion:</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Then one of the elders said to me, 'Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals'" (Revelation 5:5).</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In comes the Lion into the evil lions den, those attempting to take over the Kingdom. It is about light and dark. <br> And the story is not over. <br> No. <br> God decided to do something amazing from the time Jesus His Heart walked on earth. He said in a sense: "I Am going to make myself one with my people, live in their hearts, and I will love people, my children personally". And so He does now, and so far for over 2,000 years. The whole light and dark thing is still here. There are those on the dark side, anti-Love, anti-God that want to rule the world by their laws, their ways, their ideas, their version of life which culminates in sin and death in their pride. <br> It is really a fruitless battle, for the war has been determined and won, and so it is a battle within every soul. <br> This lent has been designed to culminate then, in a death. To do the Father's will. We can die and let it be, or kill the will.<br> <br> I am encouraging you to fight the good fight. And it is within principally, against principalities, not people per say, but ideas, ways of living and such which includes feelings that are disguised many times as good and they are not.<br> <br> Let it be clear, there is one truth, and it is the Lion and the Lamb in one, the King of the World whom we are to bow down and worship and adore...Jesus.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">My Lord, Your word is enough to bring light into our darkness. 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It is God who, as our Savior, offers himself each day for us to his Father's justice. If you are in difficulties and sorrows, he will comfort and relieve you. If you are sick, he will either cure you or give you strength to suffer so as to merit Heaven. If the devil, the world, and the flesh are making war upon you, he will give you the weapons with which to fight, to resist, and to win victory. If you are poor, he will enrich you with all sorts of riches for time and eternity. Let us open the door of his sacred and adorable Heart, and be wrapped about for an instant by the flames of his love, and we shall see what a God who loves us can do. O my God, who shall be able to comprehend?" <br> –St. John Vianney</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Today's Meditation</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"My daughter, love has brought Me here, and love keeps Me here. My daughter, if you knew what great merit and reward is earned by one act of pure love for Me, you would die of joy. I am saying this that you may constantly unite yourself with Me through love, for this is the goal of the life of your soul. This act is an act of the will. Know that a pure soul is humble. When you lower and empty yourself before My majesty, I then pursue you with My graces and make use of My omnipotence to exalt you." <br> —St. Maria Faustina Kowalska, 576</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Verse</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Persevere in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving; at the same time, pray for us, too, that God may open a door to us for the word, to speak of the mystery of Christ, for which I am in prison, that I may make it clear, as I must speak. Conduct yourselves wisely toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunity. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you know how you should respond to each one." <br> –Colossians 4:2-6</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-2 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-2"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Matilda (895-968 A.D.) was born in Prussia, the daughter of a Count, and was raised and educated in a monastery by her grandmother, who was the abbess. A political marriage was arranged for her to Henry I, the future king of Germany. Henry and Matilda enjoyed a happy and blessed marriage. As the Queen of Germany, Matilda became the mother of five important historical figures: Holy Roman Emperor Otto I; Henry, Duke of Bavaria; St. Bruno, Archbishop of Cologne; Gerberga, wife of King Louis IV of France; and Hedwig, mother of Hugh Capet. Matilda was a holy and virtuous woman known for her generosity to the poor. The king adored his queen and attributed his success in battle to her prayers. They reigned seventeen years, and their eldest son succeeded the throne and became Emperor Otto I. After her husband's death, Matilda's two eldest sons chastised her for her generous almsgiving. St. Matilda then took the possessions left to her by her husband and turned them over to her sons, and retired from court. Her sons immediately suffered misfortune, which was attributed to their poor treatment of their holy mother. 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}/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-6" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="530" alt="a1" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4647/2313/original/a1.png?1710426869" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-7 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-7 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reading 1 Ex 32:7-14</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">The LORD said to Moses, <br> "Go down at once to your people <br> whom you brought out of the land of Egypt, <br> for they have become depraved. <br> They have soon turned aside from the way I pointed out to them, <br> making for themselves a molten calf and worshiping it, <br> sacrificing to it and crying out, <br> 'This is your God, O Israel, <br> who brought you out of the land of Egypt!' <br> The LORD said to Moses, <br> "I see how stiff-necked this people is. <br> Let me alone, then, <br> that my wrath may blaze up against them to consume them. <br> Then I will make of you a great nation."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">But Moses implored the LORD, his God, saying, <br> "Why, O LORD, should your wrath blaze up against your own people, <br> whom you brought out of the land of Egypt <br> with such great power and with so strong a hand? <br> Why should the Egyptians say, <br> 'With evil intent he brought them out, <br> that he might kill them in the mountains <br> and exterminate them from the face of the earth'? <br> Let your blazing wrath die down; <br> relent in punishing your people. <br> Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, <br> and how you swore to them by your own self, saying, <br> 'I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky; <br> and all this land that I promised, <br> I will give your descendants as their perpetual heritage.'" <br> So the LORD relented in the punishment <br> he had threatened to inflict on his people.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Responsorial Psalm Ps 106:19-20, 21-22, 23</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. (4a) Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people.</strong> <br> Our fathers made a calf in Horeb <br> and adored a molten image; <br> They exchanged their glory <br> for the image of a grass-eating bullock. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people.</strong> <br> They forgot the God who had saved them, <br> who had done great deeds in Egypt, <br> Wondrous deeds in the land of Ham, <br> terrible things at the Red Sea. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people.</strong> <br> Then he spoke of exterminating them, <br> but Moses, his chosen one, <br> Withstood him in the breach <br> to turn back his destructive wrath. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people.</strong></p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Verse Before the Gospel Jn 3:16</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, <br> so that everyone who believes in him might have eternal life.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Gospel Jn 5:31-47</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus said to the Jews: <br> "If I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is not true. <br> But there is another who testifies on my behalf, <br> and I know that the testimony he gives on my behalf is true. <br> You sent emissaries to John, and he testified to the truth. <br> I do not accept human testimony, <br> but I say this so that you may be saved. <br> He was a burning and shining lamp, <br> and for a while you were content to rejoice in his light. <br> But I have testimony greater than John's. <br> The works that the Father gave me to accomplish, <br> these works that I perform testify on my behalf <br> that the Father has sent me. <br> Moreover, the Father who sent me has testified on my behalf. <br> But you have never heard his voice nor seen his form, <br> and you do not have his word remaining in you, <br> because you do not believe in the one whom he has sent. <br> You search the Scriptures, <br> because you think you have eternal life through them; <br> even they testify on my behalf. <br> But you do not want to come to me to have life.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"I do not accept human praise; <br> moreover, I know that you do not have the love of God in you. <br> I came in the name of my Father, <br> but you do not accept me; <br> yet if another comes in his own name, <br> you will accept him. <br> How can you believe, when you accept praise from one another <br> and do not seek the praise that comes from the only God? <br> Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father: <br> the one who will accuse you is Moses, <br> in whom you have placed your hope. <br> For if you had believed Moses, <br> you would have believed me, <br> because he wrote about me. <br> But if you do not believe his writings, <br> how will you believe my words?"</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-8 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=142796.8890.1.7a9541a42b723cbd8330e91514aea826"> <img width="80" alt="wauorg" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/1150/7480/original/wauorg.jpg?1473769568" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-12 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-12 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Meditation: Exodus 32:7-14</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><em style="font-style: italic;">Why, O Lord, should your wrath blaze up against your own people? (Exodus 32:11)</em></p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Violence. War. Corruption. All the negative news we hear every day can be very upsetting. You might even be tempted to throw up your hands and say, "I feel so helpless; there's nothing I can do!"</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Moses was upset, too. He saw how the Israelites had turned to idolatry and knew their behavior was bringing condemnation upon them. He could have thrown up his hands and despaired over his people. He could have given up or become bitter at their betrayal of God and himself. But instead, he prayed fervently that the Lord would have mercy on them. And his prayers made a difference! God turned aside his wrath and judgment.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">When a difficult situation weighs heavily on your mind, you can respond as Moses did. You don't have to be a great saint to approach God and pray for his mercy. You can come to him with confidence "to receive mercy and to find grace for timely help" (Hebrews 4:16).</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Let that sink in. Almighty God invites you into his own throne room—and to come there with confidence, knowing that he will welcome you and hear your prayers. Like every good earthly father, your heavenly Father wants you to bring your cares and concerns to him. He wants to help! He's just waiting for you to turn to him. He longs to pour out his mercy on you and the people you are praying for.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">So pray right now for mercy. Bring to the Lord all the concerns that make you feel powerless or tempt you to despair. Pray for those difficult situations that you see in the world or in the Church. But also pray for mercy for yourself and your loved ones. As you invite him into each situation, you will notice that your thoughts begin to turn from fear and resignation toward hope and trust. That old saying is true: "Prayer changes things." You can do something; your prayers do make a difference!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Lord, have mercy on us and on the whole world!"</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Psalm 106:19-23 <br> John 5:31-47</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-13 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; 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line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In the Gospel today we heard: <br> <em style="font-style: italic;">"You search the Scriptures, <br> because you think you have eternal life through them; <br> even they testify on my behalf. <br> But you do not want to come to me to have life. <br> I do not accept human praise; <br> moreover, I know that you do not have the love of God in you. <br> I came in the name of my Father, <br> but you do not accept me; <br> yet if another comes in his own name, <br> you will accept him......"</em> end quote.</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-17 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-17 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In our modern world, we now have online media. Books are available online. But before the internet, they were all printed and before they were all printed they were all written by hand.<br> <br> What am I getting at? Well, before they were written by hand, they were spoken. And it all boils down to where it was spoken from. <br> In the old testament, they had the law of Moses. Everything that Moses said was taken to heart, by many, but not all.<br> <br> And so, we have those same people in the time of our Lord Jesus. They had the law of Moses, but not the heart of Moses. There are the rigorists today. Who are they? They are everywhere, at home, at work, and at church. Those are the ones who want strict adherence of the rules and the law. But, many of the rigorists do not have a heart. And this is where our Lord comes in from Heaven. <br> He is the heart of Heaven. Jesus is the love of Heaven. He is presented to us every single day, and to you through this word from Heaven.<br> <br> In the time of Moses, when Moses went to the mountain to pray, the people got desperate, alone, they strayed into words of false prophets. <br> They worshiped a golden calf. Back in the old Testament days, there were other gods, like Baal and Molech, or El the one from Cana, or the Egyptian one called Apis. And that god could be shaped as a bull.<br> <br> That is a lot of bull, isn't it? Which one is it? Which one did people prefer? I don't know for sure, but what we do know is that the hearts of the people were not with our God of all.<br> <br> Any deviation can lead us into a lot of bull. Some of the bulls are money, some are abortion hungry.<br> <br> The Lord is calling us to mind, to mind His calling. <br> Our Lord said today: "But you do not want to come to me to have life. <br> I do not accept human praise; <br> moreover, I know that you do not have the love of God in you. " <br> You do not want to come to me. I said this yesterday to the funeral crowd and to you. The Lord is the Father calling us to come to Him. At least once a week! To see Him! To be with Him! To thank Him! To WORSHIP Him! That is the very least we could do...in our offering of ourselves to Him!<br> <br> He said He doesn't accept human praise...and neither shall we, for we are unprofitable servants. You are a slave to the slaves. You are to never be raised up or praised up. Do not seek places of high honors for all the good that you do. I've told you I don't like people clapping for me. Yesterday a group of men surrounded me to thank me after the funeral, and that was awkward too. I wish I could just disappear. It's not about me! It's about HIM! AMEN?<br> <br> And our Lord said "I know you do not have the love of God in you". <br> Ouch! This must've cut them. Does it cut you though? Does it cut to the heart? <br> This is why He came. What gods are running your life, or what gods are you serving?<br> <br> Lord, this is lent, and the end is fast approaching. Has it led me closer to you? I cannot love without your Love. I cannot even thank You without Your help! Help me love you and thank You better!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Today is the 2nd Thursday of the month. At about 730pm I will be offering prayers of thanksgiving at church. I invite you to be giving thanks to our Lord at that time too. For what? For the greatest gift on earth. The love of God, the Love of Heaven.</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-18 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-18"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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In the sense that we can never fully understand the idea of God suffering, the Passion is still a mystery. Now if our sufferings are somehow or other to fit into the Passion of Christ—and this is no fiction because this is where they belong—there will surely be an element of mystery about them. They will make demands on our faith." <br> —Fr. 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font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Euphrasia (380-410 A.D.) was the only child of noble Christian parents serving the court of the Christian Emperor Theodosius I, their relative, in Constantinople. After her birth her parents vowed to remain celibate in order to commit their lives fully to prayer and penance. Her father died soon after, and Euphrasia moved with her mother to Egypt near a large monastery of nuns. At the age of seven Euphrasia vowed her virginity to Christ and desired to join the monastery. Her mother gladly presented her to the abbess, and then died soon after. When the Emperor heard of her mother's death, he sought out Euphrasia for an arranged marriage. Euphrasia denied the offer due to her vow, and requested that her large estate be sold with the money given to the poor, and all her slaves freed. The Emperor was greatly pleased with her chosen course in life, and did all that she asked. As a nun Euphrasia did great penances. In order to resist temptations to sin, she would perform difficult manual labor, often lifting heavy stones and moving them from one place to another for days on end, and other such drudgery. She was known to perform miracles both before and after her death at the age of thirty. Her feast day is March 13th.</p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-5 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-5"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; height: auto !important;"> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-6 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="center" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td,table.module-6{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table a{border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:100%!important;border:0 none;text-decoration:none}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> table.image-6-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-6" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="530" alt="a1" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4644/8834/original/a1.png?1710336772" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-7 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-7 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reading 1 Is 49:8-15</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Thus says the LORD: <br> In a time of favor I answer you, <br> on the day of salvation I help you; <br> and I have kept you and given you as a covenant to the people, <br> To restore the land <br> and allot the desolate heritages, <br> Saying to the prisoners: Come out! <br> To those in darkness: Show yourselves! <br> Along the ways they shall find pasture, <br> on every bare height shall their pastures be. <br> They shall not hunger or thirst, <br> nor shall the scorching wind or the sun strike them; <br> For he who pities them leads them <br> and guides them beside springs of water. <br> I will cut a road through all my mountains, <br> and make my highways level. <br> See, some shall come from afar, <br> others from the north and the west, <br> and some from the land of Syene. <br> Sing out, O heavens, and rejoice, O earth, <br> break forth into song, you mountains. <br> For the LORD comforts his people <br> and shows mercy to his afflicted.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me; <br> my Lord has forgotten me." <br> Can a mother forget her infant, <br> be without tenderness for the child of her womb? <br> Even should she forget, <br> I will never forget you.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Responsorial Psalm Ps 145:8-9, 13cd-14, 17-18</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. (8a) The Lord is gracious and merciful.</strong> <br> The LORD is gracious and merciful, <br> slow to anger and of great kindness. <br> The LORD is good to all <br> and compassionate toward all his works. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. The Lord is gracious and merciful.</strong> <br> The LORD is faithful in all his words <br> and holy in all his works. <br> The LORD lifts up all who are falling <br> and raises up all who are bowed down. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. The Lord is gracious and merciful.</strong> <br> The LORD is just in all his ways <br> and holy in all his works. <br> The LORD is near to all who call upon him, <br> to all who call upon him in truth. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. The Lord is gracious and merciful.</strong></p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Verse Before the Gospel Jn 11:25a, 26</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">I am the resurrection and the life, says the Lord; <br> whoever believes in me will never die.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Gospel Jn 5:17-30</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus answered the Jews: <br> "My Father is at work until now, so I am at work." <br> For this reason they tried all the more to kill him, <br> because he not only broke the sabbath <br> but he also called God his own father, making himself equal to God.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus answered and said to them, <br> "Amen, amen, I say to you, the Son cannot do anything on his own, <br> but only what he sees the Father doing; <br> for what he does, the Son will do also. <br> For the Father loves the Son <br> and shows him everything that he himself does, <br> and he will show him greater works than these, <br> so that you may be amazed. <br> For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, <br> so also does the Son give life to whomever he wishes. <br> Nor does the Father judge anyone, <br> but he has given all judgment to the Son, <br> so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. <br> Whoever does not honor the Son <br> does not honor the Father who sent him. <br> Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever hears my word <br> and believes in the one who sent me <br> has eternal life and will not come to condemnation, <br> but has passed from death to life. <br> Amen, amen, I say to you, the hour is coming and is now here <br> when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, <br> and those who hear will live. <br> For just as the Father has life in himself, <br> so also he gave to the Son the possession of life in himself. <br> And he gave him power to exercise judgment, <br> because he is the Son of Man. <br> Do not be amazed at this, <br> because the hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs <br> will hear his voice and will come out, <br> those who have done good deeds <br> to the resurrection of life, <br> but those who have done wicked deeds <br> to the resurrection of condemnation.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"I cannot do anything on my own; <br> I judge as I hear, and my judgment is just, <br> because I do not seek my own will <br> but the will of the one who sent me."</p> <hr> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-8 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; text-align: left; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="center" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table,table.module-8{width:35.47%;float:left;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table a{border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:100%!important;border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 20px 20px 0}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> div.module-8 table.list-item td.numeric-text, div.module-8 table.last-list-item td.numeric-text{ width: 305px !important; 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color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=142504.8877.1.8f9ec23d357574fed826a82c77b51713"> <img width="80" alt="wauorg" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/1150/7480/original/wauorg.jpg?1473769568" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-12 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-12 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Meditation: John 5:17-30</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><em style="font-style: italic;">The Son cannot do anything on his own. (John 5:19)</em></p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Throughout the Gospels, we see Jesus doing some amazing things: controlling the weather, walking on water, healing diseases, feeding thousands of people with a few loaves and fishes, and even raising the dead! And yet twice in today's Gospel, he claims that he "cannot do anything on [his] own" (John 5:19, 30, emphasis added). He can only do "what he sees the Father doing" (5:19).</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Think about what this means for us. Just as Jesus, in his human nature, kept his eyes fixed on his Father, how much more should we if we want to bear fruit that will last!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">The truth is, we often try to do things on our own, without looking to our Father for guidance or help. But when we let him lead us instead of trying to go our own way, we become more peaceful and find courage to face our challenges. That's because we don't feel so much pressure to be perfect and get everything right! Confident that the Lord is always by our side, we try our best and then leave the results in his hands. And even when those results aren't exactly what we had hoped for, we can still trust that he is guiding us and helping us.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">However, admitting our dependence on the Lord doesn't mean that we are just puppets or robots taking orders from him. We still need to use our free will to choose to cooperate with him; we still need to put forth our effort to do what he is asking us to do.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Of course, there are times when our pride can coax even the best of us into doing what we want without seeking God's wisdom or guidance first. Following our own will instead of his may seem like the easier path at first, but in the long run, it only makes our lives more difficult—and less satisfying as well, since it leads us away from him.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">So welcome Jesus into the situations of your life! Admit your need for him, and tell him that you don't want to do anything without him. Let him guide you and help you and, yes, correct you when you need it. He wants nothing more than to empower you to do his will!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Jesus, teach me to imitate your humility. Lord, I need your grace for everything I do!"</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Isaiah 49:8-15 <br> Psalm 145:8-9, 13-14, 17-18</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-13 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="center" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td,table.module-13{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table a{border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:100%!important;border:0 none;text-decoration:none}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> table.image-13-1{ width: 100.0% !important; 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width: 100%;"> </a> <p style="color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; font-style: italic; clear: both;" align="left">click to hear 2cents</p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-15 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reflections with Brother Adrian: <br> <a target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=142504.8879.1.5bab3be88e52d2a3074f546aba393f14">Audio English </a></p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-16 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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}div.module-16 table.list-item td.bullet-text, div.module-16 table.last-list-item td.bullet-text{ width: 350px !important; }table.image-16-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }table.module-16, table.module-16 td.image-1{ width: 163px; padding: 0 20px 0 0; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module combo-left" dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-16" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: left !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-right: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="143" alt="2cents2" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/3780/4363/original/2cents2.jpg?1681226341" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span class="module-16 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In the Gospel today we heard: <br> <em style="font-style: italic;">"For just as the Father has life in himself, <br> so also he gave to the Son the possession of life in himself. <br> And he gave him power to exercise judgment, <br> because he is the Son of Man. <br> Do not be amazed at this, <br> because the hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs <br> will hear his voice and will come out, <br> those who have done good deeds <br> to the resurrection of life, <br> but those who have done wicked deeds <br> to the resurrection of condemnation....."</em> end quote.</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-17 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-17 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">This message is coming a little later than usual as I was just asked to preside over a funeral service at the last minute when a pastor got sick. And these scriptures, as I come straight from the cemetery, resonate truly, about death and life, about our judgement. <br> The Father has given authority to Jesus His Son over life. This is very good news. Because Jesus has proven to the world that He is worthy to be honored, and adored, and why? Because He can be trusted. Why? Because He gave Himself totally to the world, as if to have consecrated Himself to us. This is amazing. Ever heard of that word "consecration"?<br> <br> A quick question to Mr. Google and we get the response about Consecration as:</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"the action of making or declaring something, typically a church, sacred. <br> "the consecration of this cathedral was a magical event"</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">(in Christian belief) the action of declaring bread and wine to be or represent the body and blood of Christ.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"the consecration of bread and wine in the Eucharist"</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">the action of ordaining someone to a sacred office, typically that of bishop." <br> God has made something sacred. What? Church? What Church?<br> <br> He has made the body of Christ sacred. <br> The prayers and words I spoke at the grave earlier were to a crowd that probably don't go much to church, which probably very typical of most funerals. People that don't go to church. What does that mean? People that are not fully aware of what it means to be totally consecrated to God, to emulate Christ, to follow closely the commands of the Lord. Perhaps they've been hurt, or never touched by the Lord. <br> And so, I did my best to let them know that we have a God a Father that loves us dearly. For this man that passed, "Pedro" had lost his wife a few years ago, he had 4 daughters, and after losing his wife, he lost his daughters in a weird family takeover. The dad yearned for his daughters, I heard. He always wanted to be reunited with his daughters. I told the crowd, "This is how a father loves, always wants to be with his children, always wants to see them". And they put a restraining order on him. Not only did the seize the daughters, but they refused to let him anywhere near them. <br> This is how evil works when it seizes a soul...it wants you NO WHERE NEAR The Father. Why? Because, the where the Father is, true Love, there is no place for evil or darkness. <br> And this love equates to life.<br> <br> And life means more than what we can explain. So for our feeble minds, all we have to know is to stay far away from darkness, and let God do God, let God Love through you. How? Simply stop gossip. Stop rumors. Stop hatred. Stop violence. Stop things of darkness. Stop holding grudges. Stop thinking of those who owe you anything, even an apology. To give is to give and expect nothing in return I told them last night and today. <br> This is God's message. So how can we repay God...with our lives? <br> Gratefulness. <br> Eucharist means gratefulness. God knows you have no way of paying. So, He gave us His Son, the most precious of all beings of Himself.<br> <br> Let us come to Jesus on our Knees and drink of life saving love pouring out from Him always.</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-18 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-18"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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width: 100%;"> </a> <p style="color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; font-style: italic; clear: both;" align="left">Click for Audio</p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-19 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">This is amazing:</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Random Bible Verse <br> James 4:8 <br> 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. 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If these are yours and increase in abundance, they will keep you from being idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ." <br> –2 Peter 1:5-8</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-2 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-2"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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}/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module small-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-3" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="81" alt="SaintofDay1" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/1257/7637/original/SaintofDay1.gif?1473769568" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-right table-4 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; text-align: left; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="center" id="" style="padding-top: 0; 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border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: right !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="326" alt="asaint" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4642/6964/original/asaint.png?1710252947" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-4 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Luigi Orione</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Luigi Orione (1872-1940) was born in northern Italy and entered a Franciscan friary at the age of 13, but had to leave due to poor health. He became a pupil of St. John Bosco at his Turin oratory for boys, and later entered the diocesan seminary. While still a seminarian he opened his own oratory and boarding school to provide for the Christian training and education of boys. This institution became a well-spring for new vocations to the priesthood. He also traveled and founded many other pious congregations for clergy and lay people alike, including two religious orders. The ideal of St. Luigi's life was to provide for the spiritual welfare of others and to serve Jesus Christ and his Church. Many people were attracted to him and his work, and he cared in a special way for the sick, the disabled, and the poor. He was a preacher and confessor, as well as an organizer of pilgrimages, missions, processions, and other public celebrations of the faith. He loved Our Lady deeply and fostered devotion to her among his seminarians. Today his apostolate encompasses about 300 foundations, including schools, hospitals, assisted living facilities, and learning centers on nearly every continent. His body is incorrupt, and he was canonized in 2004. St. Luigi Orione's feast day is March 12th.</p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-5 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-5"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; height: auto !important;"> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-6 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="center" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td,table.module-6{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table a{border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:100%!important;border:0 none;text-decoration:none}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> table.image-6-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-6" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="530" alt="a1" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4642/7003/original/a1.png?1710253083" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-7 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-7 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reading 1 Ez 47:1-9, 12</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">The angel brought me, Ezekiel, <br> back to the entrance of the temple of the LORD, <br> and I saw water flowing out <br> from beneath the threshold of the temple toward the east, <br> for the façade of the temple was toward the east; <br> the water flowed down from the right side of the temple, <br> south of the altar. <br> He led me outside by the north gate, <br> and around to the outer gate facing the east, <br> where I saw water trickling from the right side. <br> Then when he had walked off to the east <br> with a measuring cord in his hand, <br> he measured off a thousand cubits <br> and had me wade through the water, <br> which was ankle-deep. <br> He measured off another thousand <br> and once more had me wade through the water, <br> which was now knee-deep. <br> Again he measured off a thousand and had me wade; <br> the water was up to my waist. <br> Once more he measured off a thousand, <br> but there was now a river through which I could not wade; <br> for the water had risen so high it had become a river <br> that could not be crossed except by swimming. <br> He asked me, "Have you seen this, son of man?" <br> Then he brought me to the bank of the river, where he had me sit. <br> Along the bank of the river I saw very many trees on both sides. <br> He said to me, <br> "This water flows into the eastern district down upon the Arabah, <br> and empties into the sea, the salt waters, which it makes fresh. <br> Wherever the river flows, <br> every sort of living creature that can multiply shall live, <br> and there shall be abundant fish, <br> for wherever this water comes the sea shall be made fresh. <br> Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of every kind shall grow; <br> their leaves shall not fade, nor their fruit fail. <br> Every month they shall bear fresh fruit, <br> for they shall be watered by the flow from the sanctuary. <br> Their fruit shall serve for food, and their leaves for medicine."</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Responsorial Psalm Ps 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. (8) The Lord of hosts is with us; our stronghold is the God of Jacob. </strong> <br> God is our refuge and our strength, <br> an ever-present help in distress. <br> Therefore we fear not, though the earth be shaken <br> and mountains plunge into the depths of the sea. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. The Lord of hosts is with us; our stronghold is the God of Jacob. </strong> <br> There is a stream whose runlets gladden the city of God, <br> the holy dwelling of the Most High. <br> God is in its midst; it shall not be disturbed; <br> God will help it at the break of dawn. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. The Lord of hosts is with us; our stronghold is the God of Jacob. </strong> <br> The LORD of hosts is with us; <br> our stronghold is the God of Jacob. <br> Come! behold the deeds of the LORD, <br> the astounding things he has wrought on earth. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. The Lord of hosts is with us; our stronghold is the God of Jacob. </strong></p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Verse Before the Gospel Ps 51:12a, 14a</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">A clean heart create for me, O God; <br> give me back the joy of your salvation.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Gospel Jn 5:1-16</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">There was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. <br> Now there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep Gate <br> a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticoes. <br> In these lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and crippled. <br> One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. <br> When Jesus saw him lying there <br> and knew that he had been ill for a long time, he said to him, <br> "Do you want to be well?" <br> The sick man answered him, <br> "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool <br> when the water is stirred up; <br> while I am on my way, someone else gets down there before me." <br> Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your mat, and walk." <br> Immediately the man became well, took up his mat, and walked.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Now that day was a sabbath. <br> So the Jews said to the man who was cured, <br> "It is the sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat." <br> He answered them, "The man who made me well told me, <br> 'Take up your mat and walk.'" <br> They asked him, <br> "Who is the man who told you, 'Take it up and walk'?" <br> The man who was healed did not know who it was, <br> for Jesus had slipped away, since there was a crowd there. <br> After this Jesus found him in the temple area and said to him, <br> "Look, you are well; do not sin any more, <br> so that nothing worse may happen to you." <br> The man went and told the Jews <br> that Jesus was the one who had made him well. <br> Therefore, the Jews began to persecute Jesus <br> because he did this on a sabbath.</p> <hr> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-8 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; text-align: left; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="center" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table,table.module-8{width:35.47%;float:left;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table a{border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:100%!important;border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 20px 20px 0}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> div.module-8 table.list-item td.numeric-text, div.module-8 table.last-list-item td.numeric-text{ width: 305px !important; 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padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table.module-11{width:15.09%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:15.09%;float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table a{border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:100%!important;border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> table.image-11-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-11" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <a target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=142427.8864.1.593185c357b720cd125c6180ef5953db"> <img width="80" alt="wauorg" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/1150/7480/original/wauorg.jpg?1473769568" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-12 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-12 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><em style="font-style: italic;">They shall be watered by the flow from the sanctuary. (Ezekiel 47:12)</em></p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">The centuries-old image of Lent as a desert journey powerfully illustrates the bleak desolation of a life without God. Few natural disasters, in fact, can compete with a prolonged drought, and the more we experience spiritual drought, the more we thirst for the life-giving water of the Spirit.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">This promise of healing, refreshment, and life is at the heart of the vision that the angel shows Ezekiel in today's first reading. The prophet sees water flowing out from the Temple, mysteriously expanding in depth and volume from a mere trickle to a mighty river. The water produces fruit and brings healing wherever it goes, even reaching the toxic waters of the Dead Sea and turning them fresh and vibrant (Ezekiel 47:8).</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">The first Christians saw in this vision a clear connection with the new life in Christ available to everyone who receives the Holy Spirit in Baptism. They understood that, just as the water that flowed from the side of the Temple brought life, so the water that flowed from the wounded side of Jesus' body brought the healing power of the Spirit. Or, as the Catechism teaches, "The Spirit is also personally the living water welling up from Christ crucified as its source and welling up in us to eternal life" (694, emphasis added).</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">These final weeks of Lent are a good time to pray for our brothers and sisters who are preparing to receive the Spirit when they are baptized or confirmed at the Easter Vigil. Pray that they will experience the same refreshment and joy that God promised through the prophet Ezekiel. Pray that they will receive every possible gift and grace from the Spirit!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">It's also a good time to declare in faith, over and over again, that you are a temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 3:16). Like the waters of the Dead Sea, you have been brought to life by the power of the Spirit. His life flows in you, offering you a taste of God's love and empowering you to share that love with everyone around you.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Come, Holy Spirit, and well up in me as the great feast of Easter draws closer!"</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Psalm 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9 <br> John 5:1-16</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-13 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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}div.module-15 table.list-item td.bullet-text, div.module-15 table.last-list-item td.bullet-text{ width: 413px !important; }table.image-15-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }table.module-15, table.module-15 td.image-1{ width: 100px; padding: 0 0 0 20px; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module caption combo-right" dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-15" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: right !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <a target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=142427.8865.1.fa4a232c5126e7bcda51f2d3018827dd"> <img width="80" alt="going4thpodcast" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/3679/1452/original/going4thpodcast.png?1677084405" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </a> <p style="color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; font-style: italic; clear: both;" align="left">click to hear 2cents</p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-15 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reflections with Brother Adrian: <br> <a target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=142427.8866.1.195a3a0ccafa02e7802f80ff35d08daf">Audio English </a></p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-16 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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}div.module-16 table.list-item td.bullet-text, div.module-16 table.last-list-item td.bullet-text{ width: 350px !important; }table.image-16-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }table.module-16, table.module-16 td.image-1{ width: 163px; padding: 0 20px 0 0; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module combo-left" dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-16" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: left !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-right: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="143" alt="2cents2" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/3780/4363/original/2cents2.jpg?1681226341" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span class="module-16 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In the Gospel today we heard: <br> <em style="font-style: italic;">"When Jesus saw him lying there <br> and knew that he had been ill for a long time, he said to him, <br> "Do you want to be well?" <br> The sick man answered him, <br> "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool <br> when the water is stirred up; <br> while I am on my way, someone else gets down there before me." <br> Jesus said to him, "Rise, take up your mat, and walk." <br> Immediately the man became well, took up his mat, and walked....."</em> end quote.</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-17 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-17 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">From a Spanish reflection today: <br> "Jesus does not stir the water for him, nor does he help him enter... he simply tells him to pick up his mat and walk. Perhaps our paralysis caused by loneliness, fear, rejection or isolation, whether intended or not, can be cured simply by listening to and obeying the call to get up and walk. Go out and look for someone who can help us dive into the water that heals. Go out and look for someone to help get out of your paralysis. Go out to accompany and feel accompanied. Listen to the voice that never leaves. But you have to answer the question: do you want...? And, if you want, you can also heal other loneliness because, like the paralytic, you can talk about the One who told you to take the stretcher. You can talk about healing to others." end quote from Carmen Aguinaco today.</p> <hr> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">We heard "The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up...". <br> If you read today's full scriptures, you will see that the first scripture talks about waters coming from a temple, a Holy Sanctuary, and you will hear that they are "flowing waters", which means living waters. Have you ever seen a swimming pool that is not taken care of, there are no pumps running water and it quickly becomes a green ugly mossy mess? That's what happens to us in our lives if we don't live and move and flow with the grace and Holy Spirit of God. Things quickly get ugly and messy, you just know you are not living a life of grace, and it can get so mucky eventually that the algae will suck out all the water, all the life out of the pool and soon, nothing will exist after that, which means death.<br> <br> But we don't want to go there right? What death? I'm talking about eternal death, an eternal departure from God Almighty, the one we call Our Father! <br> So how can we allow water from the side of Christ, His Holy Temple, to flow within us? Eucharist. Confession. All things that unite us intimately from the very life source of all things.<br> <br> Notice the poor man said that nobody would help him. Everyone beat him. Everyone was looking out for number one, themselves above all. Why not let someone else take your place at the healing water? Maybe in healing someone else, then you would be healed as well! Being selfish is not a healing thing. Being loving is a healing thing.<br> <br> In my many ministries of healing, LOL, I say that smiling because I wish I had the gift of healing, but my healing comes by way of life saving measures...of holy obedience to God. Some sickness is necessary to bring us closer.<br> <br> A few days ago, I was super early to work, it dark outside, and something told me to evangelize to the next employee of mine. In comes a young new driver. We say our good mornings, do the morning hand shake, and after the formality, I said something about him being cautious with his time and I said "you know, within the last year or so, we've lost 3 men in our company, my dad the boss man, a salesman, and a top mechanic, life is short...pray, go to church". He said he used to go and couldn't explain why he no longer went. This morning he went to the emergency room at the hospital, perhaps a ruptured appendix.<br> <br> This morning a hired carpenter told me his daughter was attacked by a dog that had attacked her another time. This time the injuries were way worse. She is at the emergency room, with a broken tibia, and lacerations. I reproached him about the vicious dog. He said "I have a hard time speaking up! It's not my dog it's my relatives who blame my daughter for provoking the dog!". I said "silence can be deadly" and he said "I know, I have that problem that has hurt me in so many ways throughout my whole life".<br> <br> Can you imagine being silent? There is no healing in that! Being silent can hurt more than not.<br> <br> In business they say "watch for the silent customer (the ones who leave and never come back without saying a word)". It can be deadly there too. <br> I spoke up to save a soul. I spoke up to tell the carpenter to speak up in the name of justice and love and protection. And I'm now asking you to speak up too. What do I mean? Come to our Lord in the Holy Sacraments. Come be with church family (not a perfect family but a family in Christ nevertheless).<br> <br> My wife spoke last night at a gathering between parishes for cursillistas. The witness she gave shed light on many that needed to hear it, but she said in her witness that it took very much effort on her part to get to that part. And so, the blessing comes after speaking. <br> So speak up! Need help? Speak up!<br> <br> A new cursillo brother said "I used to be on drugs bad, and I knew I needed prayers, so everywhere I'd vandalize walls or trash cans and write "Pray For Franky". He couldn't muster the words, so he acted out against the law, in a plea for help. "Pray for me!" and this cry says "Help Me!". And you'd never know that about him because he is a spunky fellow, now full of life, now that the Lord has poured Himself into Him, the guy is non stop smiles.<br> <br> This joy is of the Lord.<br> <br> People have asked me even at work in the past "what kind of drugs are you on!" And it baffles me. I've never touched any drugs. I look at them baffled and say "It is the Lord!". My heart is ecstatic like the joyful anticipation of a child with new things always coming. What's next? What's exciting? We shouldn't be looking for things to feel good and high. No. We should look for constancy. That is one thing my anti-catholic brother in law, my ex bro in law now, said "that's one thing I've noticed about you, your always constant". And it is true. If you look at me, I don't look joyful. I'm not a lovey dovey guy, I don't really do hugs, or sappy things. 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margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">†Quote of the Day</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"There is nothing the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer." <br> –St. Philip Neri</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Today's Meditation</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; 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Yet oftentimes we look to the things and creatures created by God for a satisfaction and fulfillment that only God Himself can provide. When the soul wraps itself around the things and the people of this world, looking for satisfaction or fulfillment that only God can give, it produces a distortion in itself, and in others as well. Many spiritual writers call the process of unwinding this possessive, self-centered, clinging, and disordered seeking of things and persons 'detachment'. The goal of the process of detachment is not to stop loving the things and people of this world, but, quite to the contrary, to love them even more truly in God, under the reign of Christ, in the power of the Holy Spirit. Things and people become even more beautiful and delightful when we see them in this light. There are almost always painful dimensions to this process of 'letting go' in order to love more, but it's the pain of true healing and liberation. Christian detachment is an important part of the process by which we enter into a realm of great freedom and joy." <br> —Ralph Martin, p.205</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Verse</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">For it is not those who hear the law who are just in the sight of God; rather, those who observe the law will be justified." <br> –Romans 2:13</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-2 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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}div.module-4 table.list-item td.bullet-text, div.module-4 table.last-list-item td.bullet-text{ width: 186px !important; }table.image-4-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }table.module-4, table.module-4 td.image-1{ width: 327px; padding: 0 0 0 20px; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module combo-right" dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-4" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: right !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="307" alt="asaint" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4634/4318/original/asaint.png?1709909525" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-4 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St Eulogius of Cordoba</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Eulogius of Cordoba (9th c.) was a priest from a prominent Christian family in Cordoba (Cordova), Spain. He was well-educated, humble, gentle, friendly, and a gifted leader with the charism of encouragement, especially towards Christians facing martyrdom. In his time Cordoba was the capital of the Muslim conquerors of Catholic Spain. The Muslim leaders allowed Christians to live in relative peace until a persecution arose when some of the Muslim population began converting to Christianity. They imprisoned the clergy, including Eulogius. While in prison Eulogius read the Bible to his companions and exhorted them to faithfulness in the face of martyrdom. He also wrote to two other young female converts who were facing threats, instructing them that no matter how terribly they were physically abused, it could not harm their souls, and that they must fight for their faith till death and leave God to defend his Church. St. Eulogius was released and later jailed again for hiding a young female convert who fled from her family in fear of her life. St. Eulogius' judge offered him escape if he would weaken the practice of his religion, but instead he preached the Gospel to the presiding court. He was immediately beheaded. St. Eulogius' feast day is March 11th.</p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-5 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-5"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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}/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-6" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="530" alt="a1" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4640/3497/original/a1.png?1710163974" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-7 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-7 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reading 1 Is 65:17-21</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Thus says the LORD: <br> Lo, I am about to create new heavens <br> and a new earth; <br> The things of the past shall not be remembered <br> or come to mind. <br> Instead, there shall always be rejoicing and happiness <br> in what I create; <br> For I create Jerusalem to be a joy <br> and its people to be a delight; <br> I will rejoice in Jerusalem <br> and exult in my people. <br> No longer shall the sound of weeping be heard there, <br> or the sound of crying; <br> No longer shall there be in it <br> an infant who lives but a few days, <br> or an old man who does not round out his full lifetime; <br> He dies a mere youth who reaches but a hundred years, <br> and he who fails of a hundred shall be thought accursed. <br> They shall live in the houses they build, <br> and eat the fruit of the vineyards they plant.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Responsorial Psalm PS 30:2 and 4, 5-6, 11-12a and 13b</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. (2a) I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.</strong> <br> I will extol you, O LORD, for you drew me clear <br> and did not let my enemies rejoice over me. <br> O LORD, you brought me up from the nether world; <br> you preserved me from among those going down into the pit. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.</strong> <br> Sing praise to the LORD, you his faithful ones, <br> and give thanks to his holy name. <br> For his anger lasts but a moment; <br> a lifetime, his good will. <br> At nightfall, weeping enters in, <br> but with the dawn, rejoicing. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.</strong> <br> "Hear, O LORD, and have pity on me; <br> O LORD, be my helper." <br> You changed my mourning into dancing; <br> O LORD, my God, forever will I give you thanks. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.</strong></p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Verse Before the Gospel Am 5:14</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Seek good and not evil so that you may live, <br> and the LORD will be with you.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Gospel Jn 4:43-54</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">At that time Jesus left [Samaria] for Galilee. <br> For Jesus himself testified <br> that a prophet has no honor in his native place. <br> When he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, <br> since they had seen all he had done in Jerusalem at the feast; <br> for they themselves had gone to the feast.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Then he returned to Cana in Galilee, <br> where he had made the water wine. <br> Now there was a royal official whose son was ill in Capernaum. <br> When he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, <br> he went to him and asked him to come down <br> and heal his son, who was near death. <br> Jesus said to him, <br> "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe." <br> The royal official said to him, <br> "Sir, come down before my child dies." <br> Jesus said to him, "You may go; your son will live." <br> The man believed what Jesus said to him and left. <br> While the man was on his way back, <br> his slaves met him and told him that his boy would live. <br> He asked them when he began to recover. <br> They told him, <br> "The fever left him yesterday, about one in the afternoon." <br> The father realized that just at that time Jesus had said to him, <br> "Your son will live," <br> and he and his whole household came to believe. <br> Now this was the second sign Jesus did <br> when he came to Galilee from Judea.</p> <hr> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-8 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=142210.8851.1.4d6cc5e94b0fd56e48ab19264528278c"> <img width="80" alt="wauorg" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/1150/7480/original/wauorg.jpg?1473769568" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-12 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-12 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Meditation: John 4:43-54</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><em style="font-style: italic;">Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe. (John 4:48)</em></p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">If you've ever played "peekaboo" with a baby, you know how fun it is. Nothing can compete with the child's surprise and delight when you take your hands from your eyes and say the magic words! But did you know that games like peekaboo are essential for a child's intellectual development as well? They help teach children something called "object permanence"—the understanding that a person or object still exists even if it's hidden from view.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">As adults, we need to develop a spiritual type of object permanence. We all yearn to see God and to know that he is right here with us. We would all love to see miracles in our lives. But God isn't immediately visible, and miracles don't always happen. So the lack of concrete evidence may lead us to wonder if God is truly present.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">But just like a good parent, God wants to help us learn that he is "hidden" but still present. And one of the ways he does this is through the grace of the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, Matrimony, and Holy Orders.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">We may think of these sacraments as just singular events that happened in our past. But the truth is that the graces God poured out on those special days remain with us always. They empower us to live out the new life we received in each sacrament.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">For instance, the grace of Matrimony remains with a husband and wife every day. It helps them to love one another no matter the circumstance. The grace of Confirmation helps us continue to live in the power and confidence of the Holy Spirit every day. It's through these graces that we can lift up our hearts in prayer, place our faith in the Lord, and experience him working in our lives.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus' words to the royal official in today's reading—"Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe"—don't have to apply to you (John 4:48). Because of the grace of the sacraments that God has poured into your heart, you can believe every single day. Even on those days when he seems absent, he is standing by your side!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Thank you, Father, for the grace of your sacraments, which help me believe in your constant presence in my life!"</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Isaiah 65:17-21 <br> Psalm 30:2, 4-6, 11-13</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-13 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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width: 100%;"> </a> <p style="color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; font-style: italic; clear: both;" align="left">click to hear 2cents</p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-15 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reflections with Brother Adrian: <br> <a target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=142210.8853.1.489945ef5ed9cbc0aea4aa974e541ebe">Audio English </a></p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-16 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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}div.module-16 table.list-item td.bullet-text, div.module-16 table.last-list-item td.bullet-text{ width: 350px !important; }table.image-16-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }table.module-16, table.module-16 td.image-1{ width: 163px; padding: 0 20px 0 0; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module combo-left" dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-16" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: left !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-right: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="143" alt="2cents2" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/3780/4363/original/2cents2.jpg?1681226341" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span class="module-16 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In the Gospel today we heard: <br> <em style="font-style: italic;">"When he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, who was near death. <br> Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe." <br> The royal official said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies." <br> Jesus said to him, "You may go; your son will live." The man believed what Jesus said to him and left....."</em> end quote.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">From Bishop Barron: <br> "Friends, in today's Gospel, Jesus heals the son of a royal official. <br> Healer: that's why he's come; that's who he is. In Jesus, divinity and humanity meet. His whole body—his hands, his mouth, his eyes—becomes a conduit of God's energy. What's God's energy, God's purpose? To set right a world gone wrong, a suffering world. Out of every pore of his body, Jesus expresses the healing love of God. <br> Jesus' ministry of healing expresses in history God's ultimate intention for the world. In Jesus we see a hint of that world to come where there will be no more suffering, no more sadness, no more sickness. <br> He does not wait for the sinner, the sufferer, the marginalized to come to him. In love and humility, he goes to them. This same Jesus, risen from the dead, present and alive in the Church, is still seeking us out, coming into our homes—not waiting for us to crawl to him, but seeking us out in love and humility....." end quote Bishop Barron.</p> <hr> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">As a youth, we are not that interested in healing stuff, not even really interested in miracles. I say this because that's what I remember and this is the vibe I get from the youth that I teach. Perhaps a little eye opener is the whole resurrection thing, rising after dying.<br> <br> As we grow older, sickness and death starts to show up more and more all around us, whether it be our older loved ones or even our own children who get sick. And the whole healing thing becomes a cataclysmic ordeal. In today's Gospel, we hear about a man whose son was sick and dying. It is the story about a father and his child. It is then, a loving father, and a beloved child. So many times we hear people coming to our Lord to heal their children. And it is still the case today.<br> <br> Where am I going with this? Once our Lord said that we evil-doers can ask for good things and do good things for our children, so how much more would He be able to give to us who is eternally good?<br> <br> This morning at daily Mass, I said a prayer I want you to say too next time you receive our Lord, because we are dealing with eternal ramifications. "Lord, come into my heart, and just as I've asked You to come into my heart, I ask you to allow me to come into Your heart and home in Heaven....forever!". It is a love offering, from me to Him and asking for eternal love in return. How in the world could we give thanks for eternal bliss? We really can't! It's not a fair deal, that He gives eternity and all we have is a few moments here on earth. Every moment then is super precious. Will you have let it waste away? Day by day. Hour by hour. Minute by minute. <br> The man's son was healed after our Lord said ""Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe." <br> This was not a mean statement but a clear fact from God. And the statement is a question too. Oh ye of little faith! How long will I be with you! This man did not amaze Jesus. And so our Lord had to amaze him. The man left with nothing but words said from our Lord "You may go; your son will live." 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margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">†Quote of the Day</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward and learning to enjoy whatever life has, and this requires transforming greed into gratitude." <br> –St. John Chrysostom</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Today's Meditation</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Now, man is afraid of death by nature, afraid of the decay of the body. But here is a really startling fact: whoever has put on the faith of the Cross despises even what is naturally dreadful, and for Christ's sake is not afraid of death. So if anyone is skeptical even now, after so many proofs, and after so many have become martyrs to Christ, and after those who are champions in Christ have shown scorn for death every day—if his mind is still doubtful about whether death has been brought to nothing and come to an end—well, he's right to wonder at such a great thing. But he should not be stubborn in his skepticism, or cynical in the face of what is so obvious. Let him who is skeptical about the victory over death receive the faith of Christ, and come over to his teaching. Then he will see how weak death is, and the triumph over it. Many who used to be skeptics and scoffers have later believed, and despised death even enough to become martyrs for Christ himself." <br> —St. Athanasius, p.15</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Verse</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will tell what he has done for me. I cried aloud to him, and he was extolled with my tongue. If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. But truly God has listened; he has given heed to the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God, because he has not rejected my prayer or removed his steadfast love from me!" <br> –Psalm 66:16-20</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-2 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-2"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. John of God (1495-1550) was born in Portugal to poor and devout Christian parents. How he came to be separated from them and homeless at the age of 8 is uncertain, but he eventually found work as a shepherd until the age of 22. At that time he enlisted as a soldier in the Roman Emperor's army to escape an offer of marriage to the shepherd's daughter. There he led a wild and dissolute life; fond memories of his parents is all that kept the spark of faith alive in his heart. At the age of 40 he left the army and reformed himself, beginning with a penitential pilgrimage to St. James of Compostella (The Way of St. James) in Spain. Appalled at his sinful and wasted life, he was determined to spend his remaining days in good works. He was affirmed in this direction by a vision of the Infant Jesus and a sermon of St. John of Avila, who was to become his spiritual director. He later dedicated his life in service to the poor, homeless, and sick, especially the mentally ill, by starting a hospital and homeless shelter. Many people were attracted to him and his work, and he organized his followers into the Order of Hospitallers. They were approved by the Holy See as the Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God, which still exists to this day. St. John of God is the patron saint of many causes, especially of hospitals, hospital workers, nurses, the sick, and the dying. His feast day is March 8.</p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-5 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-5"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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}/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-6" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="530" alt="a1" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4634/4326/original/a1.png?1709909550" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-7 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-7 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Friday of the Third Week of Lent</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reading 1 Hos 14:2-10</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Thus says the LORD: <br> Return, O Israel, to the LORD, your God; <br> you have collapsed through your guilt. <br> Take with you words, <br> and return to the LORD; <br> Say to him, "Forgive all iniquity, <br> and receive what is good, that we may render <br> as offerings the bullocks from our stalls. <br> Assyria will not save us, <br> nor shall we have horses to mount; <br> We shall say no more, 'Our god,' <br> to the work of our hands; <br> for in you the orphan finds compassion."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">I will heal their defection, says the LORD, <br> I will love them freely; <br> for my wrath is turned away from them. <br> I will be like the dew for Israel: <br> he shall blossom like the lily; <br> He shall strike root like the Lebanon cedar, <br> and put forth his shoots. <br> His splendor shall be like the olive tree <br> and his fragrance like the Lebanon cedar. <br> Again they shall dwell in his shade <br> and raise grain; <br> They shall blossom like the vine, <br> and his fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Ephraim! What more has he to do with idols? <br> I have humbled him, but I will prosper him. <br> "I am like a verdant cypress tree"– <br> Because of me you bear fruit!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Let him who is wise understand these things; <br> let him who is prudent know them. <br> Straight are the paths of the LORD, <br> in them the just walk, <br> but sinners stumble in them.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Responsorial Psalm Ps 81:6c-8a, 8bc-9, 10-11ab, 14 and 17</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. (see 11 and 9a) I am the Lord your God: hear my voice.</strong> <br> An unfamiliar speech I hear: <br> "I relieved his shoulder of the burden; <br> his hands were freed from the basket. <br> In distress you called, and I rescued you." <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. I am the Lord your God: hear my voice.</strong> <br> "Unseen, I answered you in thunder; <br> I tested you at the waters of Meribah. <br> Hear, my people, and I will admonish you; <br> O Israel, will you not hear me?" <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. I am the Lord your God: hear my voice.</strong> <br> "There shall be no strange god among you <br> nor shall you worship any alien god. <br> I, the LORD, am your God <br> who led you forth from the land of Egypt." <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. I am the Lord your God: hear my voice.</strong> <br> "If only my people would hear me, <br> and Israel walk in my ways, <br> I would feed them with the best of wheat, <br> and with honey from the rock I would fill them." <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. I am the Lord your God: hear my voice.</strong></p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Verse Before the Gospel Mt 4:17</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Repent, says the Lord; <br> the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Gospel Mk 12:28-34</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">One of the scribes came to Jesus and asked him, <br> "Which is the first of all the commandments?" <br> Jesus replied, "The first is this: <br> Hear, O Israel! <br> The Lord our God is Lord alone! <br> You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, <br> with all your soul, <br> with all your mind, <br> and with all your strength. <br> The second is this: <br> You shall love your neighbor as yourself. <br> There is no other commandment greater than these." <br> The scribe said to him, "Well said, teacher. <br> You are right in saying, <br> He is One and there is no other than he. <br> And to love him with all your heart, <br> with all your understanding, <br> with all your strength, <br> and to love your neighbor as yourself <br> is worth more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices." <br> And when Jesus saw that he answered with understanding, <br> he said to him, <br> "You are not far from the Kingdom of God." <br> And no one dared to ask him any more questions.</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-8 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=141994.8838.1.b265da704e6e77c18451b464e10a91bd"> <img width="80" alt="wauorg" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/1150/7480/original/wauorg.jpg?1473769568" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-12 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-12 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Meditation: Hosea 14:2-10</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><em style="font-style: italic;">Take with you words, and return to the Lord. (Hosea 14:3)</em></p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Talk is cheap." "Names will never hurt me." In a world where sayings like these are often thrown around, the prophet Hosea—who lived around 750 BC—tells us something very different. When the people of Israel had fallen into idolatry, God sent Hosea to them with a simple message. God wasn't demanding a grand gesture or a costly sacrifice from them. Instead, he simply asked them to speak to him: "Take with you words, and return to the Lord" (Hosea 14:3). He asked them to give voice to their heartfelt repentance and their longing to be restored to him.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Hosea's message is a moving reflection of how deeply God desires a living relationship with his people. He makes it clear that returning to the Lord does more than wipe our slate clean. It also opens up a process of healing between those who love one another.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Take with you words. Isn't that at the heart of the Sacrament of Reconciliation? Every Confession is meant to be a sacred encounter in which we can speak words that heal wounds in our relationship with God. What kind of words? Not necessarily the most eloquent or impassioned words, but the most open and honest ones. Words that reflect our desire to put aside whatever has caused a rift between us and the Lord.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Many parishes will have expanded opportunities for Confession this season—so make plans to go! But before you do, ask the Spirit to help you be forthright, clear, and direct in your language. Ask for the courage to name your sins, even if you feel embarrassed or uncomfortable. Believe that if you bring words of humility and repentance, the Lord himself will respond with words of mercy, comfort, and healing.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">God doesn't want us to wallow in guilt, just as he didn't want the Israelites to be lost in their sin. He doesn't want to burden you with shame; he wants to set you free so that you can live as the beloved child you truly are.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Let's all bring our words to the Lord so that he can bring us his healing, reconciling love!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Holy Spirit, help me to speak words of truth and humility and love as I confess my sins."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Psalm 81:6-11, 14, 17 <br> Mark 12:28-34</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-13 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="center" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td,table.module-13{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table a{border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:100%!important;border:0 none;text-decoration:none}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> table.image-13-1{ width: 100.0% !important; 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}div.module-16 table.list-item td.bullet-text, div.module-16 table.last-list-item td.bullet-text{ width: 350px !important; }table.image-16-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }table.module-16, table.module-16 td.image-1{ width: 163px; padding: 0 20px 0 0; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module combo-left" dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-16" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: left !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-right: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="143" alt="2cents2" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/3780/4363/original/2cents2.jpg?1681226341" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span class="module-16 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In the Gospel today we heard: <br> <em style="font-style: italic;">"The Lord our God is Lord alone! <br> You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, <br> with all your soul, <br> with all your mind, <br> and with all your strength. <br> The second is this: <br> You shall love your neighbor as yourself."</em> end quote.</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-17 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-17 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">From Bishop Barron: <br> "There is a strict logic at work here. When you really love someone, you tend to love, as well, what they love. Well, what does God love? He loves everything and everyone that he has made. So, if you want to love God, and you find this move difficult because God seems so distant, love everyone you come across for the sake of God. " End quote Bishop Barron.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">From a Spanish reflection today: <br> "It is not a new message. It has been repeated many times in the readings. It is important to keep this in mind because sometimes it is easier for us to make sacrifices, prayers and holocausts than to truly love our neighbors in need." end quote Fernando Torres.</p> <hr> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">If you will believe the words of Our Father, He desires love. And love is to will the good of the other. It is not for oneself. Our world preaches "self love" and "self care" and there is some good to be taken in that, but some take it to the extreme, to save one's one self and lose everyone else along the process.<br> <br> What if God has us on earth just for that purpose alone? That He may love through us!<br> <br> When the Eucharistic miracles turn the Eucharist into blood and flesh, the scientists say the analysis shows that it is blood from a 33 year old man, who suffered great trauma, and that these cells are from the heart.<br> <br> This is God's heart pouring Himself out on all the altars all over the world. Tell me He doesn't want you to eat of His heart and become one with His heart and share His heart with the world!<br> <br> For a while, I was doing this to help me love neighbor more, so I could love God more, and I need to get back at it: Every time I'd meet someone throughout the day, at work, out and about, anywhere, even among family now, I would be on the lookout for Jesus in every soul. Why? <br> I'll share a story I heard that can shed light on the answer: <br> "There is a story about a certain monastery that was going through a time of crisis. Some of the monks had left the monastery; no new candidates joined them in years; and people were no longer coming for prayer and spiritual direction as they used to. The few monks that remained became old, depressed and bitter in their relationship with one another. But, the abbot heard about a holy man; a hermit living alone in the woods and decided to consult him. He told the hermit how bad things had become and that only seven old monks remained. Praying on this, the hermit told the abbot that he has a secret for him: one of the monks currently living in his monastery was actually the Messiah, but He was living in such a way that no one could recognize Him. <br> With this revelation the abbot returned to his monastery, and recounted what the holy hermit told him to the community. The aging monks looked at each other in disbelief, trying to discern who among them could be the Christ. Could it be Brother Mark who prays all the time? But he has a holier-than-thou attitude toward others. Could it be Bother Joseph who is always ready to help? But he is always eating and cannot fast. The abbot reminded them that the Messiah had adopted some bad habits as a way of disguising His true identity. This only made them more confused and they could not figure out who was Christ among them. At the end of the meeting what each one knew for sure was that any of the monks, excepting himself, could be Christ. <br> From that day the monks began to treat one another with greater respect and humility, knowing that the person they were speaking to could, in fact, be Christ. They began to show more love for one another, their common life became more brotherly and their common prayer more fervent. Slowly people began to take notice of the new spirit in the monastery and began coming back for retreats and spiritual direction. Word began to spread and, before you know it, candidates began to show up and the monastery began to grow again in number as the monks grew in zeal and holiness. All this because a man of God drew their attention to a simple truth: that Christ was living in their midst as one of them."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">My life has forever changed thinking and knowing that Christ is in those I meet daily. How do I love Him? How do I forgive Him? For those that slap me across the face, how do I respond to our Father? <br> For those that ridicule me and tell me truths I don't want to hear? How do I react? To those in dire need of help, how do I help? For those that don't want to be bothered, and they rather die alone, how do I reach them?<br> <br> My brothers and sisters in Christ, we are one Body in our Holy Baptism. Every cell is important. Everything you do is important. Every person is important. Do you think God wants someone to die without feeling His love? What good are all my fasts and sacrifices if I don't have love?<br> <br> And if you've listened so far, I have 2 more things to say: <br> 1.) Love fuels Heaven. <br> 2.) The home you make for God in your heart, that room He will give to you in His Heart in Heaven.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Lord, less of me in my heart, and more of Thee! <br> If only I could love You with all my heart, mind, soul, all my strength! 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They look not only at the gifts, but at the Giver, Who is above all gifts." <br> —Thomas à Kempis, p. 108</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Verse</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">But as it is written: "What eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and what has not entered the human heart, what God has prepared for those who love him," this God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit scrutinizes everything, even the depths of God." <br> –1 Corinthians 2:9-10</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-2 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-2"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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They were both catechumens preparing to receive the Church's sacraments: Perpetua was a married noblewoman nursing her first child, and Felicity was a pregnant Christian slave who worked as a household servant. Because Christianity was forbidden, they were seized along with two companions, one of them being their catechist. Perpetua's baptism was hastened after her arrest, and God told her to pray for strength to withstand her coming trials. While in prison she kept a detailed diary of her sufferings and mystical visions, one of the oldest and most treasured of early Christian writings. Her father, a pagan, pleaded with her to deny her faith, even bringing her infant, for whom she was anxious, to the prison in order to persuade her to apostatize. She refused. Felicity also remained steadfast in her faith, giving birth to a daughter while in prison a few days before her execution. Perpetua, Felicity, and their companions were condemned to be torn by wild animals in the arena. Perpetua understood that their contest was not with animals, but with the devil. She walked into the arena and met her fate with a joy and bravery that astonished many onlookers. Perpetua, Felicity, and their companions were mauled and then beheaded on March 7, 203. St. Perpetua and St. Felicity share a feast day on March 7th.</p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-5 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-5"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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}/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-6" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="530" alt="a1" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4632/2700/original/a1.png?1709822394" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-7 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-7 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Thursday of the Third Week of Lent</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">• Readings for the Optional Memorial of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, martyrs</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reading 1 Jer 7:23-28</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Thus says the LORD: <br> This is what I commanded my people: <br> Listen to my voice; <br> then I will be your God and you shall be my people. <br> Walk in all the ways that I command you, <br> so that you may prosper.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">But they obeyed not, nor did they pay heed. <br> They walked in the hardness of their evil hearts <br> and turned their backs, not their faces, to me. <br> From the day that your fathers left the land of Egypt even to this day, <br> I have sent you untiringly all my servants the prophets. <br> Yet they have not obeyed me nor paid heed; <br> they have stiffened their necks and done worse than their fathers. <br> When you speak all these words to them, <br> they will not listen to you either; <br> when you call to them, they will not answer you. <br> Say to them: <br> This is the nation that does not listen <br> to the voice of the LORD, its God, <br> or take correction. <br> Faithfulness has disappeared; <br> the word itself is banished from their speech.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Responsorial Psalm PS 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. (8) If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.</strong> <br> Come, let us sing joyfully to the LORD; <br> let us acclaim the Rock of our salvation. <br> Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; <br> let us joyfully sing psalms to him. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.</strong> <br> Come, let us bow down in worship; <br> let us kneel before the LORD who made us. <br> For he is our God, <br> and we are the people he shepherds, the flock he guides. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.</strong> <br> Oh, that today you would hear his voice: <br> "Harden not your hearts as at Meribah, <br> as in the day of Massah in the desert, <br> Where your fathers tempted me; <br> they tested me though they had seen my works." <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.</strong></p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Verse Before the Gospel Jl 2:12-13</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Even now, says the LORD, <br> return to me with your whole heart, <br> for I am gracious and merciful.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Gospel Lk 11:14-23</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus was driving out a demon that was mute, <br> and when the demon had gone out, <br> the mute man spoke and the crowds were amazed. <br> Some of them said, "By the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons, <br> he drives out demons." <br> Others, to test him, asked him for a sign from heaven. <br> But he knew their thoughts and said to them, <br> "Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste <br> and house will fall against house. <br> And if Satan is divided against himself, <br> how will his kingdom stand? <br> For you say that it is by Beelzebul that I drive out demons. <br> If I, then, drive out demons by Beelzebul, <br> by whom do your own people drive them out? <br> Therefore they will be your judges. <br> But if it is by the finger of God that I drive out demons, <br> then the Kingdom of God has come upon you. <br> When a strong man fully armed guards his palace, <br> his possessions are safe. <br> But when one stronger than he attacks and overcomes him, <br> he takes away the armor on which he relied <br> and distributes the spoils. <br> Whoever is not with me is against me, <br> and whoever does not gather with me scatters."</p> <hr> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-8 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Meditation: Luke 11:14-23</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><em style="font-style: italic;">Whoever does not gather with me scatters. (Luke 11:23)</em></p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In today's Gospel, Jesus drives out an evil spirit with great effect: a man previously unable to utter a word suddenly speaks freely. The crowds are amazed, but not everyone is happy. Some accuse Jesus of driving out the demon "by the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons" (Luke 11:15). But Jesus proclaims that this exorcism demonstrates that "the Kingdom of God has come upon you" (11:20).</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">This miracle reveals Jesus' mission for unity. When he expelled the demon, Jesus freed the man from his silent isolation and restored his ability to engage with his family and friends. As he said, he came to "gather" the people whom the devil "scatters" and seeks to torment (Luke 11:23). God's kingdom brings power and healing. Even more, it gathers God's people together with their Father in heaven.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">This wasn't the first time Jesus' ministry resulted in such "gathering." He healed a man with leprosy whose disease had ostracized him from his community (Luke 5:13). He delivered a young man from a demon and reunited him with his family (9:42). So while the kingdom of darkness brings division, pain, and heartbreak, the kingdom of God brings unity, healing, and restored relationships.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus longs to unite his people today as well. The evil one seeks to divide families and churches, and he does it by wielding weapons like gossip, envy, half-truths, and lies. But the kingdom of God is at hand! Jesus is always working for unity. And whenever we choose to love, he works through us. Where there is distrust, we can sow honesty. Where there is bitterness, we can sow mercy. Where there is division, we can be a force of forgiveness and understanding.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Today you will have opportunities to build God's kingdom of love. Will you chime in to a gossipy office conversation or steer it in a better direction? Will you react angrily when you don't understand a decision, or will you assume the best of intentions? Will you avoid a difficult person, or will you reach out with kindness?</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">It's not easy; unity requires commitment, humility, and even greater measures of God's grace. But take heart: the kingdom of heaven has come upon you!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Lord, help me to love."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jeremiah 7:23-28 <br> Psalm 95:1-2, 6-9</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-13 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; 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line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In the Gospel today we heard: <br> <em style="font-style: italic;">"Some of them said, "By the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons, <br> he drives out demons." <br> Others, to test him, asked him for a sign from heaven. <br> But he knew their thoughts and said to them, <br> "Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste <br> and house will fall against house. <br> And if Satan is divided against himself, <br> how will his kingdom stand?"</em> end quote.</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-17 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-17 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">You've seen how wild animals hunt among large herds, like lions or other predators, what do they do? What is their innate plan of attack? They usually are on the prowl, no matter the time of day, they spot the weaker victim, and at the most opportune time they attack. And the success of the hunt depends on many things. Was the victim alone for a moment? Is the herd around to help protect it?<br> <br> Think about you and church. If you are apart from the church, you could be that lonely susceptible future victim for when the devil comes on the prowl. And it is not a question of "if" it will happen, but a question of "when" it will happen.<br> <br> All evil needs is an opportunity, and often by way of "feelings". <br> Think about a fit of rage what all can happen? The devil there launches itself in a fit of rage to destroy relationships in a heartbeat. Just lose your temper and let the devil devour all the innocent. Just give into temptations of any kind and see if the evil will ever want to leave you alone! <br> In today's Gospel, we heard: "Jesus was driving out a demon that was mute, and when the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke and the crowds were amazed. <br> Some of them said, "By the power of Beelzebul, the prince of demons, he drives out demons." <br> Before going any further, how in the world do "mute" demons work? How can these demons make a person actually mute, unable to speak!<br> <br> Let's not try to think of someone you know who is physically mute because they are very rare to find. But let's think about how many millions of people are mute in the faith, unable to speak about God! What makes people mute?<br> <br> In exorcisms, a sure sign a person is possessed is that they cannot utter the name of Jesus or the Blessed Virgin Mother Mary, they cannot pray! Think of how many people we know that do not pray! They may not be possessed but what demons are making them mute in the faith? <br> I would say that a vast majority do not regularly pray as they ought. All they know how to do is to ask God for something and if they don't get it, they leave God in a fit of rage, a temper tantrum. How evil is that! But it happens more often than not. Humility is not taught enough. Humility towards God our Father. <br> So how can we be healed from these demons that make us deaf and mute? Come to the flock. Come to church. Come humbly to Our Father. The church is a hospital for sinners. There, the shepherds should know how to heal. The Catholic Church has 2, possibly 3 Holy Sacraments of healing. We have Confession, called reconciliation, and we have anointing of the sick, which is not just for those that are dying and last but not least is what? Well, this third one only works if you go to confession first, it is the Holy Sacrament of Communion, where our venial sins are washed by His blood, and our souls are nourished by the Divine Master Shepherd and brother, the Christ, the only sustenance in the world that can bind us to eternity with Him. <br> And this is good news. <br> Remember that quote "United We Stand"? A house divided cannot stand, a kingdom divided cannot stand. The Kingdom of darkness cannot stand because it is divided forever. But for the light of God we can stand, if we unite. <br> Perhaps this is the greatest achievement we can do as children of God; to unite all of us in His Love. There we are bound forever, and forever is where I want all my family to be, in Heaven, under our King's Wings. <br> Lord, with You, there is life, and love, all I want forever for us all.</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-18 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-18"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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May the Father of all mercy, the Son by his holy passion, and the Holy Spirit, source of peace, sweetness and love, fill us with their consolation." <br> –St. Colette</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Today's Meditation</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">""Oh, how sweet and pleasant to that soul and to Me is holy prayer, made in the house of knowledge of self and of Me, opening the eye of the intellect to the light of faith, and the affections to the abundance of My charity, which was made visible to you, through My visible Only-begotten Son, who showed it to you with His blood! Which blood inebriates the soul and clothes her with the fire of divine charity, giving her the food of the Sacrament . . . that is to say, the food of the Body and Blood of My Son, wholly God and wholly man, administered to you by the hand of My vicar, who holds the key of the Blood." <br> —St. Catherine of Siena, p. 92</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Verse</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; 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font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Colette (1381-1447) was born in Picardy, France, the daughter of a poor carpenter who served the local Benedictine abbey. Her parents conceived her in their old age after praying to St. Nicholas for a child, naming Colette after him. She became well known for her faith and spiritual wisdom from a young age. After the death of her parents she joined the Third Order of St. Francis and became a hermit. She led a life of asceticism and solitude until a dream revealed that God willed her to reform the Poor Clares. She obeyed and joined the Poor Clares in 1406. Her mission of reformation was sanctioned by Benedict XIII of Avignon (the anti-pope) who appointed her superior of each of the convents she reformed. Despite resistance from within the Poor Clares, she successfully reformed several existing convents and founded 17 new ones dedicated to a stricter observance of the Poor Clares, known as the Colettines. She experienced visions and ecstasies of Christ's Passion, and even prophesied her own death. Through her life's work, St. Colette's reformation breathed new life into the Poor Clares and created a lasting model of spirituality. St. Colette's feast day is March 6th.</p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-5 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-5"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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}/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-6" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="492" alt="a1" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4629/8265/original/a1.png?1709736053" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-7 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-7 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reading 1 Dt 4:1, 5-9</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Moses spoke to the people and said: <br> "Now, Israel, hear the statutes and decrees <br> which I am teaching you to observe, <br> that you may live, and may enter in and take possession of the land <br> which the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you. <br> Therefore, I teach you the statutes and decrees <br> as the LORD, my God, has commanded me, <br> that you may observe them in the land you are entering to occupy. <br> Observe them carefully, <br> for thus will you give evidence <br> of your wisdom and intelligence to the nations, <br> who will hear of all these statutes and say, <br> 'This great nation is truly a wise and intelligent people.' <br> For what great nation is there <br> that has gods so close to it as the LORD, our God, is to us <br> whenever we call upon him? <br> Or what great nation has statutes and decrees <br> that are as just as this whole law <br> which I am setting before you today?</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"However, take care and be earnestly on your guard <br> not to forget the things which your own eyes have seen, <br> nor let them slip from your memory as long as you live, <br> but teach them to your children and to your children's children."</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Responsorial Psalm PS 147:12-13, 15-16, 19-20</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. (12a) Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.</strong> <br> Glorify the LORD, O Jerusalem; <br> praise your God, O Zion. <br> For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; <br> he has blessed your children within you. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.</strong> <br> He sends forth his command to the earth; <br> swiftly runs his word! <br> He spreads snow like wool; <br> frost he strews like ashes. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.</strong> <br> He has proclaimed his word to Jacob, <br> his statutes and his ordinances to Israel. <br> He has not done thus for any other nation; <br> his ordinances he has not made known to them. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.</strong></p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Verse Before the Gospel See Jn 6:63c, 68c</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Your words, Lord, are Spirit and life; <br> You have the words of everlasting life.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Gospel Mt 5:17-19</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus said to his disciples: <br> "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. <br> I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. <br> Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, <br> not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter <br> will pass from the law, <br> until all things have taken place. <br> Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments <br> and teaches others to do so <br> will be called least in the Kingdom of heaven. <br> But whoever obeys and teaches these commandments <br> will be called greatest in the Kingdom of heaven."</p> <hr> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-8 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=141654.8812.1.d1007f5fc95eaf833ca9be1343ff97fc"> <img width="80" alt="wauorg" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/1150/7480/original/wauorg.jpg?1473769568" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-12 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-12 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Meditation: Matthew 5:17-19</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><em style="font-style: italic;">Whoever obeys and teaches these commandments will be called greatest in the Kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:19)</em></p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Imagine that you are at an awards ceremony. But this is not your typical awards show; this one is in heaven, and it's led by God, the ultimate Master of ceremonies. And the awards are for people who have done what Jesus speaks of in today's Gospel: "Whoever obeys and teaches these commandments will be called greatest in the Kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 5:19). When it comes time to announce the winners, you are shocked. They are calling your name!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">You don't think of yourself as one of the "greatest in the Kingdom" (Matthew 5:19), but that's how God sees you. Each day you try to be as attentive to his voice as you can. As often as possible, you receive him in the Eucharist. There have been times when you have made a hard decision to forgive someone who has hurt you. You regularly donate to those in need, and you've tried to share God's love with many people in your life.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Yes, the winners in the kingdom of heaven may not be the people you would have most expected. They are not always the best-looking, the most athletic, or even those whose good deeds have gone viral on social media. That's because God "looks into the heart" (1 Samuel 16:7) and sees what no one else may see. He sees you. He knows that you're not perfect, but he sees all the steps you've taken to listen to his voice, to obey him, and to allow his love to change your life.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Today, think about that awards ceremony in heaven. Then invite the Lord to speak to you about how you can be the "greatest" in his eyes. Is he nudging you to be content with what you have? Is he asking you to take a day of rest? Or perhaps he's calling you to maintain an attitude of kindness toward people you find difficult to be around. Obey him today, and imagine his great pleasure as he gives you the kingdom of heaven award!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Lord, I know that you see me even when no one else does. Help me to live for your eternal reward and not for any other fleeting prizes."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Deuteronomy 4:1, 5-9 <br> Psalm 147:12-13, 15-16, 19-20</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-13 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="center" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table.module-13{width:75.47%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:75.47%;float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table a{border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:100%!important;border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> table.image-13-1{ width: 100.0% !important; 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}div.module-16 table.list-item td.bullet-text, div.module-16 table.last-list-item td.bullet-text{ width: 350px !important; }table.image-16-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }table.module-16, table.module-16 td.image-1{ width: 163px; padding: 0 20px 0 0; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module combo-left" dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-16" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: left !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-right: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="143" alt="2cents2" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/3780/4363/original/2cents2.jpg?1681226341" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span class="module-16 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In the Gospel today we heard: <br> <em style="font-style: italic;">"Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments <br> and teaches others to do so <br> will be called least in the Kingdom of heaven. <br> But whoever obeys and teaches these commandments <br> will be called greatest in the Kingdom of heaven."</em> end quote.</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-17 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-17 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">From Bishop Barron today: <br> <em style="font-style: italic;">"Friends, in today's Gospel, Jesus declares that he has come to fulfill the Law. <br> The same Jesus who railed against the hypocritical legalism of the Pharisees also said, "I have come not to abolish the law but to fulfill it." And the same Jesus who threatened to tear down the temple in Jerusalem also promised to "raise it up" in three days. <br> The point is this: Jesus certainly criticized the corruption in the institutional religion of his time, but he by no means called for its wholesale dismantling. He was a loyal, observant, law-abiding Jew. <br> What he effected was a transfiguration of the best of that classical Israelite religion—temple, law, priesthood, sacrifice, covenant—into the institutions, sacraments, practices, and structures of his Mystical Body, the Church. <br> Lots of New Age devotees today want spirituality without religion, and lots of evangelicals want Jesus without religion. Both end up with abstractions. But the one thing Jesus is not is an abstraction. Rather, he is a spiritual power who makes himself available precisely in the dense institutional particularity of his Mystical Body across space and time. Jesus didn't come to abolish religion; he came to fulfill it."</em> End quote from Bishop Barron.</p> <hr> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"But whoever obeys and teaches these commandments will be called greatest in the Kingdom of heaven." <br> This is what you came to read about. This is what you wanted to hear. How can I help fulfill God's Holy will. There you have it. Love God above all, and then teach others this law. God's laws should reign supreme, because His laws as we understand, are all about Him, and what He is consisting of...true Love. Teach God's laws and watch the world change. Live God our Father's laws, and see your own life change! You see, there is a difference. When you teach, you learn and when you learn, you live. And so ultimately, it is to our own benefit if we do God's will! Sounds selfish right? But it is a design of salvation. For your own salvation, and then others.<br> <br> There are stories we tell in the oilfield about safety. For instance, we deal with deadly H2S gases on a daily basis and boy the lower concentrations are nasty smells. Anyhow, there is a story we heard of a father and son that were working in tanks, and enclosed space. The father was unresponsive suddenly, and the son went into see what happened. They say both died of gas poisoning. We were told that in order to save someone, you must take the proper precautions of saving yourself, protecting yourself first, gear up with the proper air breathing equipment. It is like that with firefighters and other examples.<br> <br> And so it is with teaching others, this is how you gear up for salvation in order to save other souls. To save another soul is to save your own soul. And this goes hand in hand with God's laws of love which means to will the good of the other.<br> <br> If then, someone is trying to teach you something, especially about the laws of Love, the law of God, then it is for our own good. We should take note, do as they say, and then teach others the same. <br> And listen more to the teachings than the teacher, especially if you see the teacher struggling to live the teachings. I say this because I find that in my own life and teachings, that I am a better teacher than a doer. I find that my pupils are better than myself. And this I pray, that if they are saved, and in Heaven, then, they can help me to Heaven from there. 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width: 100%;"> </a> <p style="color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; font-style: italic; clear: both;" align="left">Click for Audio</p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-19 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Random Bible Verse 1 <br> Psalm 135:5–7</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">5 For I know that the LORD is great,</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">and that our Lord is above all gods. <br> 6 Whatever the LORD pleases, he does,</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">in heaven and on earth,</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">in the seas and all deeps. <br> 7 He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth,</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">who makes lightnings for the rain</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.</p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-20 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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Let none of us be frightened; our native land is not in this world." <br> –St. Augustine</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Today's Meditation</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Now man need not hide from God as Adam did; for He can be seen through Christ's human nature. 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font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. John-Joseph of the Cross (1654-1739) was born on the island of Ischia, near Naples. He joined the Franciscan Order of the Strict Observance (the reform of St. Peter of Alcantara) at age sixteen. His influence was great despite his young age, and after three years he was sent to help found a new order of friars in Piedmont, where he was ordained to the priesthood. He codified a set of guidelines for spiritual and daily life that were approved by the Holy See and became a lasting model for religious communities. In 1702 he was appointed Vicar Provincial of the Alcantarine Reform in Italy. During his time as Vicar he implemented a rule that no beggar would be turned away without assistance, and in times of extreme scarcity he would offer his own portion to the poor. He was known as a deeply holy man who served Christ and the monastic community through daily acts of mortification and humility. Despite his high ranking position, he continued to lead a life of service and took on menial tasks whenever possible, from working in the kitchen to chopping firewood. He was said to have performed numerous miracles as well as the gift of prophecy. St. John-Joseph of the Cross is the patron saint of Ischia and his feast day is March 5th.</p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-5 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-5"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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}/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-6" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="530" alt="a1" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4627/5434/original/a1.png?1709653449" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-7 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-7 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reading 1 Dn 3:25, 34-43</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Azariah stood up in the fire and prayed aloud:</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"For your name's sake, O Lord, do not deliver us up forever, <br> or make void your covenant. <br> Do not take away your mercy from us, <br> for the sake of Abraham, your beloved, <br> Isaac your servant, and Israel your holy one, <br> To whom you promised to multiply their offspring <br> like the stars of heaven, <br> or the sand on the shore of the sea. <br> For we are reduced, O Lord, beyond any other nation, <br> brought low everywhere in the world this day <br> because of our sins. <br> We have in our day no prince, prophet, or leader, <br> no burnt offering, sacrifice, oblation, or incense, <br> no place to offer first fruits, to find favor with you. <br> But with contrite heart and humble spirit <br> let us be received; <br> As though it were burnt offerings of rams and bullocks, <br> or thousands of fat lambs, <br> So let our sacrifice be in your presence today <br> as we follow you unreservedly; <br> for those who trust in you cannot be put to shame. <br> And now we follow you with our whole heart, <br> we fear you and we pray to you. <br> Do not let us be put to shame, <br> but deal with us in your kindness and great mercy. <br> Deliver us by your wonders, <br> and bring glory to your name, O Lord."</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Responsorial Psalm PS 25:4-5ab, 6 and 7bc, 8-9</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. (6a) Remember your mercies, O Lord.</strong> <br> Your ways, O LORD, make known to me; <br> teach me your paths, <br> Guide me in your truth and teach me, <br> for you are God my savior. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Remember your mercies, O Lord.</strong> <br> Remember that your compassion, O LORD, <br> and your kindness are from of old. <br> In your kindness remember me, <br> because of your goodness, O LORD. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Remember your mercies, O Lord.</strong> <br> Good and upright is the LORD; <br> thus he shows sinners the way. <br> He guides the humble to justice, <br> he teaches the humble his way. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Remember your mercies, O Lord.</strong></p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Verse Before the Gospel Jl 2:12-13</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Even now, says the LORD, <br> return to me with your whole heart; <br> for I am gracious and merciful.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Gospel Mt 18:21-35</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Peter approached Jesus and asked him, <br> "Lord, if my brother sins against me, <br> how often must I forgive him? <br> As many as seven times?" <br> Jesus answered, "I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times. <br> That is why the Kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king <br> who decided to settle accounts with his servants. <br> When he began the accounting, <br> a debtor was brought before him who owed him a huge amount. <br> Since he had no way of paying it back, <br> his master ordered him to be sold, <br> along with his wife, his children, and all his property, <br> in payment of the debt. <br> At that, the servant fell down, did him homage, and said, <br> 'Be patient with me, and I will pay you back in full.' <br> Moved with compassion the master of that servant <br> let him go and forgave him the loan. <br> When that servant had left, he found one of his fellow servants <br> who owed him a much smaller amount. <br> He seized him and started to choke him, demanding, <br> 'Pay back what you owe.' <br> Falling to his knees, his fellow servant begged him, <br> 'Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.' <br> But he refused. <br> Instead, he had him put in prison <br> until he paid back the debt. <br> Now when his fellow servants saw what had happened, <br> they were deeply disturbed, and went to their master <br> and reported the whole affair. <br> His master summoned him and said to him, 'You wicked servant! <br> I forgave you your entire debt because you begged me to. <br> Should you not have had pity on your fellow servant, <br> as I had pity on you?' <br> Then in anger his master handed him over to the torturers <br> until he should pay back the whole debt. <br> So will my heavenly Father do to you, <br> unless each of you forgives your brother from your heart."</p> <hr> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-8 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=141387.8799.1.8c40cdd0b49247246fec0e96cc018e3a"> <img width="80" alt="wauorg" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/1150/7480/original/wauorg.jpg?1473769568" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-12 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-12 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Meditation: Daniel 3:25, 34-43</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><em style="font-style: italic;">Let our sacrifice be in your presence today. (Daniel 3:40)</em></p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego (also called Hananiah, Azariah, and Mishael) were "in the fire," but in a sense, so were all the exiles who were living in Babylon at the time (Daniel 3:25). Far from home, the Israelites couldn't worship God by offering their sacrifices in the Temple in Jerusalem. Even worse, now they were being forced to worship the king's golden statue. The three men refused, so they were thrown into a white-hot furnace—so hot that it even burned the king's men who had cast them into it (3:22)!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Only God could save them, and so Azariah turned to him in prayer. Acknowledging the sins of his people, he told God that he had "no burnt offering, sacrifice, oblation, or incense" to offer him. Instead, he offered himself: "Let our sacrifice be in your presence today" (Daniel 3:40). In the fire, it was only a "contrite heart and humble spirit" that these men could give to the Lord (3:39).</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">We've all been "in the fire" at one time or another—difficult times that make us realize we don't have the strength, energy, or power to help ourselves, never mind offer anything to the Lord. We may struggle to worship him the way we did in better times. We can only come to God, as these men did, and offer him a contrite heart and a humble spirt. That means admitting our weaknesses and limitations and looking only to God to rescue us.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">The good news is, this is exactly what the Lord wants from us! Of course, he is pleased with our good deeds and our prayers. But he also knows that when we are at the end of our rope, we are able to see ourselves as we truly are: totally dependent on him. And amazingly, when we throw ourselves on God's mercy and stop trying to change our situations on our own, he shows us just how powerfully he can work in our lives.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Whether or not you're in a white-hot furnace today, offer yourself to the Lord with a contrite heart and a humble spirit. Do this every day, and trust him to do his work in you.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Lord, I give myself to you, today and always."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Psalm 25:4-9 <br> Matthew 18:21-35</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-13 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; 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}div.module-15 table.list-item td.bullet-text, div.module-15 table.last-list-item td.bullet-text{ width: 413px !important; }table.image-15-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }table.module-15, table.module-15 td.image-1{ width: 100px; padding: 0 0 0 20px; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module caption combo-right" dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-15" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: right !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <a target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=141387.8800.1.9dc3b4d1b8e606d1a13e4d6b2e53c271"> <img width="80" alt="going4thpodcast" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/3679/1452/original/going4thpodcast.png?1677084405" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </a> <p style="color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; font-style: italic; clear: both;" align="left">click to hear 2cents</p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-15 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reflections with Brother Adrian: <br> <a target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=141387.8801.1.4951bfd8a39d5a9a07c137e9c7225699">Audio English </a></p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-16 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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}div.module-16 table.list-item td.bullet-text, div.module-16 table.last-list-item td.bullet-text{ width: 350px !important; }table.image-16-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }table.module-16, table.module-16 td.image-1{ width: 163px; padding: 0 20px 0 0; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module combo-left" dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-16" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: left !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-right: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="143" alt="2cents2" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/3780/4363/original/2cents2.jpg?1681226341" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span class="module-16 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In the Gospel today we heard: <br> <em style="font-style: italic;">"His master summoned him and said to him, 'You wicked servant! <br> I forgave you your entire debt because you begged me to. <br> Should you not have had pity on your fellow servant, <br> as I had pity on you?' <br> Then in anger his master handed him over to the torturers <br> until he should pay back the whole debt. <br> So will my heavenly Father do to you, <br> unless each of you forgives your brother from your heart."</em> end quote.</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-17 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-17 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">From Bishop Barron today: <br> "Friends, in today's Gospel, Jesus tells a parable that illustrates God's mercy. The Latin word for mercy is misericordia, which designates the suffering of the heart, or compassion—cum patior (I suffer with). <br> Mercy is identical to what the Old Testament authors refer to as God's hesed, or tender mercy. It is the characteristic of God, for God is love. The love that obtains among the Trinitarian persons spills over into God's love for the world that he has made. <br> Think of a mother's love for her children. Could you ever imagine a mother becoming indifferent to one of her offspring? But even should she forget, we read in the prophet Isaiah, God will never forget his own. Consider the fact that nothing would exist were it not willed into being by God. But God has no need of anything; hence, his sustaining of the universe is an act of disinterested love and tender mercy. <br> There is no greater manifestation of the divine mercy than the forgiveness of sins. When G.K. Chesterton was asked why he became a Catholic, he answered, "To have my sins forgiven." This is the greatest grace the Church can offer: reconciliation, the restoration of the divine friendship, the forgiveness of our sins." End quote from Bishop Barron.</p> <hr> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">What does it feel like to be forgiven? If one is truly contrite (totally sincere and cut to the heart and soul) then it feels heavenly. The more serious the sin, the better it feels to be forgiven, the weight on your heart, mind, and soul. But what is that feeling all about? It is the knowing. To know that you have been spared. I could list some things I've been forgiven for by: Police (when I was in college) and it changed my life (involved beer). By loved ones. And most importantly, by our Father in Heaven who knows the deepest recesses of my heart and has pierced my darkness with His light in the Holy Sacrament of Confession. His light reached so far in, whence I let my heart open to Him. I've been all things ridiculous and I've learned serious lesson from all of them. So what does the feeling of being forgiven feel like?</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Firstly, the college incident about 22 years ago, we had opened containers in the vehicle, cops had me pulled over and it was college finals (biggest exams) and I prayed so much to our Lord to help. I was forgiven, and that terrible night, that dark- dark night, I saw the light. And not just the cop lights! LOL. I remember it fondly, God's kindness. I swore it would never happen again, and it didn't. What did forgiveness feel like? To be set free? I felt Salvation and that God is with us. I was cut to the heart.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">To be forgiven by someone you love helps you build greater trust in them! And so I tell you the worst parts about me so that you may believe what is about to be told about God's forgiveness and that if you come reconcile, you will know you can trust God with your life.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">I've gone to the confessional many times. They say we should go regularly, at least monthly, although the church teaches at least once a year. But more often, closer to the sin timing is better for memory and goodness sake and to live a more grace filled life! <br> Last week, I wanted an excuse to ride my motorcycle because the weather was nice. I told my wife I wanted to go to confession. It was late, they start at 5pm, and I went straight there and I arrived at 6pm. The doors were locked. It was too late. Through the windows, I could see the brand new tabernacle with amazing lights (which we just renovated) through the glass doors. But I couldn't come near our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. I was too late.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">I say this because this is how it will be if we die in our sin. Too late. <br> What sins did I have to confess? They were not mortal sins, I didn't commit grave sins. None of the sins I committed were mortal. But I've been training myself to see venial sins, and uncharitable acts as major sins. Sins against love are sins against God Himself. So what other sins are connected? Like what? Using the Lord's name in vain? How often do we just say "Oh My GOD!" for no good reason? That is to use it for nothing. But there's more sins. The type of sins people don't like to talk about. Cursing? Did you know that a curse word can actually curse someone or a situation? Talking uncharitably about others is a curse too. What else? Impurity, perhaps the biggest sin that leads most souls to hell. I feel so bad for our youth. When I was young it was really hard to see impure images. Today, just turn on any TV, internet, or social media and it is in your face if you let it, all things disgrace instead of grace. These are devil traps.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">And what else can keep you from salvation and lead to eternal damnation that nobody thinks about much? Not forgiving someone. Resentment. Hatred. Animosity. Sins against love and humility.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">But let me go ahead and warn the world about the following sin that I must mention now that I've never said: being unloving in any way towards any priest. The priest, no matter who they are or what they've done, are endowed with an indelible (more than permanent, but eternal) the mark of the Father who acts in them in the Holy Sacraments. A priest, when they die, will always be marked, whether in Heaven, Purgatory, or even hell. And so, I am going to warn the world, be careful how you treat a priest. I am not free to say what can happen, but know how important it is to love the priests rightly and obediently, with sincere love (willing the good of the other).<br> <br> And priests should learn to lay down their lives for their flock, and they do, but more in the sense of getting over themselves to help pry open the hearts of hardened sinners. Sometimes it takes hard love, and sometimes with gentle love, but not always one or the other, but both, and hard love sometimes for us means just being honest and true...to God's love and Holy Word.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Lord, I've been all things of the world, now I want to be all things of the Lord, You My Lord My God In Heaven. Forever. Forgive us Father, as we forgive others. Help me totally love and forgive! I want a contrite heart. The kind of Heart you love to live in.</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-18 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-18"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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Persevere in knocking, even to the point of rudeness, if that were possible….We must think, with the Gospel: 'Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you,' which he then repeats by saying, 'Everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened' (Luke 11:9-10). We must, therefore, pray during the day, pray at night, and pray every time we rise. Even though God seems either not to hear us or even to reject us, we must continually knock, expecting all things from God but nevertheless also acting ourselves. We must not only ask as though God must do everything himself; we must also make our own effort to act according to his will and with the help of his grace, as all things are done with his support. We must never forget that it is always God who provides; to think thus is the very foundation of humility." <br> —Bishop Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, p. 35</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Verse</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"For many, as I have often told you and now tell you even in tears, conduct themselves as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction. Their God is their stomach; their glory is in their "shame." Their minds are occupied with earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we also await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ." <br> –Philippians 3:18-20</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-2 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-2"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: right !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="315" alt="asaint" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4624/5494/original/asaint.png?1709563669" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-4 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Casimir of Poland</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Casimir of Poland (1458-1484) was the second son of King Casimir IV and Queen Elizabeth of Austria, one of thirteen children born to them in the royal palace at Cracow. Casimir committed his life to God from an early age, thanks in part to a brilliant and pious priest who served as the royal tutor. He turned away from the privileges of his station in life and instead exercised extreme asceticism and self-denial. He wore a hairshirt under his clothes, slept on the cold ground, and knelt in prayer for long hours outside of locked churches. At the age of thirteen the Hungarians requested Prince Casimir to rule their country as king, which he accepted in the hope of defending the Christian nation against the Turks. However, the plan did not come to fruition and he returned home to continue his life of prayer, penance, and generosity to the poor. He later ruled Poland for a few short years while his father attended royal business in Lithuania. Casimir took a vow of celibacy which he upheld despite immense political pressure to marry. He suffered from a chronic lung condition, which he succumbed to in 1484 at the age of 25. Many miracles were attributed to his intercession after his death. St. Casimir is the patron saint of Poland, Lithuania, and young people. His feast day is March 4th.</p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-5 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-5"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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}/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-6" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="530" alt="a1" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4624/7036/original/a1.png?1709568678" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-7 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-7 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Monday of the Third Week of Lent</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reading 1 2 Kgs 5:1-15ab</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Naaman, the army commander of the king of Aram, <br> was highly esteemed and respected by his master, <br> for through him the LORD had brought victory to Aram. <br> But valiant as he was, the man was a leper. <br> Now the Arameans had captured in a raid on the land of Israel <br> a little girl, who became the servant of Naaman's wife. <br> "If only my master would present himself to the prophet in Samaria," <br> she said to her mistress, "he would cure him of his leprosy." <br> Naaman went and told his lord <br> just what the slave girl from the land of Israel had said. <br> "Go," said the king of Aram. <br> "I will send along a letter to the king of Israel." <br> So Naaman set out, taking along ten silver talents, <br> six thousand gold pieces, and ten festal garments. <br> To the king of Israel he brought the letter, which read: <br> "With this letter I am sending my servant Naaman to you, <br> that you may cure him of his leprosy."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">When he read the letter, <br> the king of Israel tore his garments and exclaimed: <br> "Am I a god with power over life and death, <br> that this man should send someone to me to be cured of leprosy? <br> Take note! You can see he is only looking for a quarrel with me!" <br> When Elisha, the man of God, <br> heard that the king of Israel had torn his garments, <br> he sent word to the king: <br> "Why have you torn your garments? <br> Let him come to me and find out <br> that there is a prophet in Israel."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Naaman came with his horses and chariots <br> and stopped at the door of Elisha's house. <br> The prophet sent him the message: <br> "Go and wash seven times in the Jordan, <br> and your flesh will heal, and you will be clean." <br> But Naaman went away angry, saying, <br> "I thought that he would surely come out and stand there <br> to invoke the LORD his God, <br> and would move his hand over the spot, <br> and thus cure the leprosy. <br> Are not the rivers of Damascus, the Abana and the Pharpar, <br> better than all the waters of Israel? <br> Could I not wash in them and be cleansed?" <br> With this, he turned about in anger and left.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">But his servants came up and reasoned with him. <br> "My father," they said, <br> "if the prophet had told you to do something extraordinary, <br> would you not have done it? <br> All the more now, since he said to you, <br> 'Wash and be clean,' should you do as he said." <br> So Naaman went down and plunged into the Jordan seven times <br> at the word of the man of God. <br> His flesh became again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">He returned with his whole retinue to the man of God. <br> On his arrival he stood before him and said, <br> "Now I know that there is no God in all the earth, <br> except in Israel."</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Responsorial Psalm PS 42:2, 3; 43:3, 4</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. (see 42:3) Athirst is my soul for the living God.</strong> <br> When shall I go and behold the face of God? <br> As the hind longs for the running waters, <br> so my soul longs for you, O God. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Athirst is my soul for the living God.</strong> <br> When shall I go and behold the face of God? <br> Athirst is my soul for God, the living God. <br> When shall I go and behold the face of God? <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Athirst is my soul for the living God.</strong> <br> When shall I go and behold the face of God? <br> Send forth your light and your fidelity; <br> they shall lead me on <br> And bring me to your holy mountain, <br> to your dwelling-place. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Athirst is my soul for the living God.</strong> <br> When shall I go and behold the face of God? <br> Then will I go in to the altar of God, <br> the God of my gladness and joy; <br> Then will I give you thanks upon the harp, <br> O God, my God! <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Athirst is my soul for the living God.</strong> <br> When shall I go and behold the face of God?</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Verse Before the Gospel See Ps 130:5, 7</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">I hope in the LORD, I trust in his word; <br> with him there is kindness and plenteous redemption.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Gospel Lk 4:24-30</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus said to the people in the synagogue at Nazareth: <br> "Amen, I say to you, <br> no prophet is accepted in his own native place. <br> Indeed, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel <br> in the days of Elijah <br> when the sky was closed for three and a half years <br> and a severe famine spread over the entire land. <br> It was to none of these that Elijah was sent, <br> but only to a widow in Zarephath in the land of Sidon. <br> Again, there were many lepers in Israel <br> during the time of Elisha the prophet; <br> yet not one of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian." <br> When the people in the synagogue heard this, <br> they were all filled with fury. <br> They rose up, drove him out of the town, <br> and led him to the brow of the hill <br> on which their town had been built, <br> to hurl him down headlong. <br> But he passed through the midst of them and went away.</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-8 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; text-align: left; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="center" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table,table.module-8{width:35.47%;float:left;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table a{border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:100%!important;border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 20px 20px 0}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> div.module-8 table.list-item td.numeric-text, div.module-8 table.last-list-item td.numeric-text{ width: 305px !important; 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color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=141246.8786.1.8ac4e8ea9a28adb4df56278d4f93ed10"> <img width="80" alt="wauorg" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/1150/7480/original/wauorg.jpg?1473769568" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-12 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-12 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Meditation: Luke 4:24-30</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><em style="font-style: italic;">No prophet is accepted in his own native place. (Luke 4:24)</em></p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus was back in his hometown, with people he had known from boyhood. He probably had memories of childhood games, prayers in the synagogue, and Shabbat celebrations. Given this shared history, wouldn't this have been a wonderful opportunity to perform miracles and teach them?</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Yet even without them saying anything negative, Jesus perceived the people's resistance to him and laid bare their thoughts. And as today's Gospel makes clear, this enraged them (Luke 4:29).</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">It must have grieved Jesus to encounter such small-mindedness and cynicism in the people he knew so well. But he also knew that he stood in a long line of prophets who had been rejected in their native land. Like them, he was still called to proclaim God's words. It's clear that his message to the people of Nazareth was deeply unsettling and disturbing to them, as the truth can often be. But if they had heard it, truly heard it, with open hearts and minds, they would have realized who Jesus was and let his word pierce their hearts.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">As we continue our Lenten journey, let's consider how Jesus can read our thoughts as well. As the psalmist writes, "Lord, you have probed me, you know me. . . . You understand my thoughts from afar" (139:1, 2). Jesus knows us even better than we know ourselves. He can open our eyes to ways of thinking that are holding us back or preventing us from seeing what God is doing in our lives. He can uncover our blind spots so that we are able to see people and situations in the light of his love. He can also reveal his truths to us—even those that might be hard to hear—in order to deepen our understanding of who he is and what it means to live in his kingdom.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Today in prayer, be honest with the Lord and tell him what you are thinking, even if it's something you would rather not admit, even to yourself. Then be open to letting him show you a different way of seeing things. The people of Nazareth missed out on the wondrous truth that Jesus was the Messiah. This Lent, don't miss out on all that Jesus wants to do in you!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Lord Jesus, open my mind and heart to your truths."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">2 Kings 5:1-15 <br> Psalm 42:2-3; 43:3-4</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-13 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; 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}div.module-15 table.list-item td.bullet-text, div.module-15 table.last-list-item td.bullet-text{ width: 413px !important; }table.image-15-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }table.module-15, table.module-15 td.image-1{ width: 100px; padding: 0 0 0 20px; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module caption combo-right" dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-15" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: right !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <a target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=141246.8787.1.837cd2148eb956720401c9c91e082a53"> <img width="80" alt="going4thpodcast" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/3679/1452/original/going4thpodcast.png?1677084405" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </a> <p style="color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; font-style: italic; clear: both;" align="left">click to hear 2cents</p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-15 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reflections with Brother Adrian: <br> <a target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=141246.8788.1.05b1ad62787666db5eedbafe492d1cd5">Audio English </a></p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-16 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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}div.module-16 table.list-item td.bullet-text, div.module-16 table.last-list-item td.bullet-text{ width: 350px !important; }table.image-16-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }table.module-16, table.module-16 td.image-1{ width: 163px; padding: 0 20px 0 0; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module combo-left" dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-16" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: left !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-right: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="143" alt="2cents2" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/3780/4363/original/2cents2.jpg?1681226341" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span class="module-16 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In the Gospel today we heard: <br> <em style="font-style: italic;">"Again, there were many lepers in Israel <br> during the time of Elisha the prophet; <br> yet not one of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian." <br> When the people in the synagogue heard this, <br> they were all filled with fury. <br> They rose up, drove him out of the town, <br> and led him to the brow of the hill..."</em> <br> . . .</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-17 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-17 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">From a Spanish reflection today: <br> "There is a saying that tells us that "works are loves and not good reasons." And the work of love that God shows us is the gift of the gift that he makes of his son. God gives us his son to save us and so that we may have life in abundance. Therefore, death on the cross is an act of donation, a principle of goodness. Loving always means donating something of yourself. There is no love without donation, without sacrifice and without delivery. God takes the initiative to love us, to embrace our misery, to transform our weakness into grace. God always loves more and loves first. When God loves men, he does so knowing what we are here and now. He doesn't love us because we are perfect or better than others. When God loves, he doesn't pay attention to whether you have more or less. God loves us for who we are and from what we are he saves us. How do we experience this love of God every day? What do we do to take care of the love that God has for us?" End quote Fr. Néstor Morales Gutiérrez O.P..</p> <hr> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Don't you wish you knew the stories in the bible more so you could understand what's going on here? <br> Who is Naaman? Why does it matter that he was from Syria? Why would this infuriate the Jews so much that they wanted to kill the Lord in that instant by throwing him off a cliff? Well, we don't have to know all the details but it sure would be nice. But the bible lets us read with plenty of context clues to keep us hungry for more and to get the gist, the basic meaning for us all. <br> I read somewhere though: <br> "Naaman in the Bible was the commander of the Syrian army who was healed of his leprosy by Elisha the prophet. Naaman was highly esteemed by the king of Syria (or Aram) because of the many victories won by the Syrian army. The Bible calls Naaman "a valiant soldier." His story is recorded in 2 Kings 5:1–19. <br> It so happened that Naaman's wife had a servant—a little Israelite girl who had been captured during a Syrian raid. One day the little girl told her mistress, "If only my master would see the prophet who is in Samaria! He would cure him of his leprosy" (2 Kings 5:3). Naaman relayed this information to the king of Syria, who sent Naaman to Samaria with a letter to the king of Israel regarding the matter and a gift of silver, gold, and clothing. In the letter, the Syrian king asked the king of Israel to cure Naaman's leprosy."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">It was because of a little Israelite girl. Israelis were not the best of friends with Syrians. Who are the modern day Syrians anyway? "Most modern-day Syrians are described as Levantine Arabs by virtue of their modern-day language and bonds to Arab culture and history. Genetically, Syrian Arabs are a variety of diverse Semitic-speaking groups indigenous to the region." <br> Are there flourishing Christ followers among Arabians? It has not been the norm, but we could see an exponential growth in Christendom if we let the story continue.<br> <br> Back to the little Israelite girl, the servant of Naaman's wife.<br> <br> It was because of her suggestion that things changed, and her master would be saved. <br> What a tremendous difference for the world because she just uttered salvation. You too should learn from this little girl. You should see the world change because of a woman's heart and what she says or does. Think Eve. Think the blessed Mother Mary. <br> Back to the Jews who wanted to kill the Lord. For what? <br> What was so wrong about what He said about Naaman the Syrian and all the lepers?<br> <br> He pointed out that they were the lepers in need of a radical change. <br> When's the last time you thought yourself "I need a radical change for God, I need to repent fully with all my heart and do something different". <br> Naaman had a hard time doing something strange to be healed. <br> For many, coming to confession is something strange. <br> For others, just reorientating their life's direction to Heaven is a radical change. <br> For many, giving up what they love and believe is too much to ask. <br> And here comes a word many don't want to hear...humility. <br> Naaman had to humble himself and believe. <br> The Jews couldn't humble down and believe, rather, they were filled with rage "how dare you say that about us!". Evil spirits talk like that, full of pride "how dare you say that about me!" and the killings begin, in the name of pride. <br> But for Naaman, everything changed, his view on life, his thoughts about other gods that had failed him, and I bet he appreciated that little Israelite girl servant more than anything. <br> And if you've read this far, I've got something strange to tell the world that took me by surprise. Speaking of a servant young woman....I was cleaning and pruning the tree around the statue of our Lady that was crying, remember the story? She caught my attention and was led to say something for the world to hear. She said "Tell them that I love them".<br> <br> My immediate response was "I'm going to need help with that". <br> And another strange thing happened, a little bird came from atop the trees, which was strange because they always fly away when I show up. It flew to the closest branch it could land on, and it looked at me over and over and wouldn't fly away, even when I acted like I was going to prune with the long shears again. It was a message reaffirmation.<br> <br> "Tell them that I love them". <br> This is good news. Your Mother in Heaven loves you. <br> I'd dare say, there is no sweeter love (aside from God Himself giving himself in His Son), than the love of Mother Mary, of purest of loves and purest of graces.<br> <br> Your Mother says "I Love You". <br> Share it to the world, in great need of this love. Share this now. <br> Lord, I am going to radically change my faith to You. 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Now of those who speak with authority in the churches, no preacher however forceful will utter anything different—for no one is above the Master—nor will a less forceful preacher diminish what has been handed down. Since our faith is everywhere the same, no one who can say more augments it, nor can anyone who says less diminish it." <br> —St. Ignatius of Antioch, p. 194</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Verse</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"The way we may be sure that we know him is to keep his commandments. Whoever says, "I know him," but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps his word, the love of God is truly perfected in him. This is the way we may know that we are in union with him: whoever claims to abide in him ought to live [just] as he lived." <br> –1 John 2:3-6</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-2 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-2"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: right !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="341" alt="asaint" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4617/9663/original/asaint.png?1709302283" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-4 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. David of Wales</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. David of Wales (6th c.), also called Dewi Sant by the Welsh, was a missionary priest, Celtic monk, archbishop, miracle-worker, and the founder of many monasteries in Wales and western England. He was descended from Welsh royalty, and in medieval times many believed he was the nephew of the famed King Arthur. His great leadership abilities gave him influence over many Church affairs. In the dozen monasteries he founded he established strict asceticism modeled after the early desert hermits. St. David is often depicted standing on a mound with a dove on his shoulder. According to legend, one day while preaching a dove rested on his shoulder, and the earth rose to lift him above the crowd so that all could hear him speak. During a battle with the Saxons, St. David advised the Welsh soldiers to wear leeks in their hats to distinguish themselves from their enemy; this is the origin of the leek as an emblem of Wales. St. David is one of the great saints of the 6th century whose work helped to establish Christianity in Europe. He is the patron saint of Wales, and his feast, "St. David's Day," is a popular cultural celebration. The Cathedral of St. David's in Pembrokeshire was built over his remains and became a pilgrimage destination for centuries. St. David of Wales' feast day is March 1st.</p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-5 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-5"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-7 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Friday of the Second Week of Lent</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reading 1 Gn 37:3-4, 12-13a, 17b-28a</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Israel loved Joseph best of all his sons, <br> for he was the child of his old age; <br> and he had made him a long tunic. <br> When his brothers saw that their father loved him best of all his sons, <br> they hated him so much that they would not even greet him.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">One day, when his brothers had gone <br> to pasture their father's flocks at Shechem, <br> Israel said to Joseph, <br> "Your brothers, you know, are tending our flocks at Shechem. <br> Get ready; I will send you to them."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">So Joseph went after his brothers and caught up with them in Dothan. <br> They noticed him from a distance, <br> and before he came up to them, they plotted to kill him. <br> They said to one another: "Here comes that master dreamer! <br> Come on, let us kill him and throw him into one of the cisterns here; <br> we could say that a wild beast devoured him. <br> We shall then see what comes of his dreams."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">When Reuben heard this, <br> he tried to save him from their hands, saying, <br> "We must not take his life. <br> Instead of shedding blood," he continued, <br> "just throw him into that cistern there in the desert; <br> but do not kill him outright." <br> His purpose was to rescue him from their hands <br> and return him to his father. <br> So when Joseph came up to them, <br> they stripped him of the long tunic he had on; <br> then they took him and threw him into the cistern, <br> which was empty and dry.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">They then sat down to their meal. <br> Looking up, they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, <br> their camels laden with gum, balm and resin <br> to be taken down to Egypt. <br> Judah said to his brothers: <br> "What is to be gained by killing our brother and concealing his blood? <br> Rather, let us sell him to these Ishmaelites, <br> instead of doing away with him ourselves. <br> After all, he is our brother, our own flesh." <br> His brothers agreed. <br> They sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Responsorial Psalm Ps 105:16-17, 18-19, 20-21</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. (5a) Remember the marvels the Lord has done.</strong> <br> When the LORD called down a famine on the land <br> and ruined the crop that sustained them, <br> He sent a man before them, <br> Joseph, sold as a slave. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Remember the marvels the Lord has done.</strong> <br> They had weighed him down with fetters, <br> and he was bound with chains, <br> Till his prediction came to pass <br> and the word of the LORD proved him true. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Remember the marvels the Lord has done.</strong> <br> The king sent and released him, <br> the ruler of the peoples set him free. <br> He made him lord of his house <br> and ruler of all his possessions. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Remember the marvels the Lord has done.</strong></p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Verse Before the Gospel Jn 3:16</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son; <br> so that everyone who believes in him might have eternal life.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Gospel Mt 21:33-43, 45-46</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people: <br> "Hear another parable. <br> There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, <br> put a hedge around it, <br> dug a wine press in it, and built a tower. <br> Then he leased it to tenants and went on a journey. <br> When vintage time drew near, <br> he sent his servants to the tenants to obtain his produce. <br> But the tenants seized the servants and one they beat, <br> another they killed, and a third they stoned. <br> Again he sent other servants, more numerous than the first ones, <br> but they treated them in the same way. <br> Finally, he sent his son to them, <br> thinking, 'They will respect my son.' <br> But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, <br> 'This is the heir. <br> Come, let us kill him and acquire his inheritance.' <br> They seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. <br> What will the owner of the vineyard do to those tenants when he comes?" <br> They answered him, <br> "He will put those wretched men to a wretched death <br> and lease his vineyard to other tenants <br> who will give him the produce at the proper times." <br> Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures:</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">The stone that the builders rejected <br> has become the cornerstone; <br> by the Lord has this been done, <br> and it is wonderful in our eyes?</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Therefore, I say to you, <br> the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you <br> and given to a people that will produce its fruit." <br> When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, <br> they knew that he was speaking about them. <br> And although they were attempting to arrest him, <br> they feared the crowds, for they regarded him as a prophet.</p> <hr> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-8 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Meditation: Matthew 21:33-43, 45-46</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><em style="font-style: italic;">Did you never read? (Matthew 21:42)</em></p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus was incredulous. How could these chief priests and elders respond to his parable the way they did? Maybe a Roman soldier would expect the vineyard owner to destroy the tenants who had murdered his servants and his son. But these men were priests of the Lord, models of holiness immersed in God's mind as revealed in the Scriptures. They should know better!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus was amazed that the elders didn't grasp what he thought was a fairly elementary point: God, the vineyard owner, was not going to rain down destruction upon those who killed his servants—or his Son. Quite the opposite, he was going to redeem them. And he would do it by making his Son, the "stone rejected" and murdered, the "cornerstone" of his plan of salvation (Matthew 21:42). That salvation would come, not by destroying evildoers, but by surrendering to them. It would come, not through vengeance masquerading as justice, but through words like "Father, forgive" and "Peace be with you" (Luke 23:34; John 20:19).</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">We can miss Jesus' point as well. Where we might expect God to retaliate against sinners—whether ourselves or someone else—he offers pardon. Where we might expect wrath, our Father extends mercy. And by extension, where we might want to exact retribution upon someone who has sinned against us, he urges us to forgive—even "seventy-seven times" if we need to (Matthew 18:22).</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">As you gaze on Jesus' cross over the next few weeks, think about how far he was willing to go in order to save you. Think, also, about how far he was willing to go in order to save even your worst enemy. He was willing to become the rejected cornerstone, for you and for everyone else. Don't miss his message! Let his love—a love that chooses mercy over judgment—become the way you love as well.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Lord, I am in awe of your love! Truly 'It is wonderful in our eyes.'" (Matthew 21:42)."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Genesis 37:3-4, 12-13, 17-28 <br> Psalm 105:16-21</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-13 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="center" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td,table.module-13{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table a{border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:100%!important;border:0 none;text-decoration:none}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> table.image-13-1{ width: 100.0% !important; 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line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In the Gospel today we heard: <br> _"Finally, he sent his son to them, thinking, 'They will respect my son.' But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, <br> 'This is the heir. <br> Come, let us kill him and acquire his inheritance.' <br> They seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What will the owner of the vineyard do to those tenants when he comes?" <br> They answered him, "He will put those wretched men to a wretched death <br> and lease his vineyard to other tenants <br> who will give him the produce at the proper times."..." <br> . . .</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-17 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-17 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">From Bishop Barron: <br> "Friends, in today's Gospel, Jesus tells the parable of the tenants. This is one of the most terrible anticipations of the cross. In a final attempt to make his vineyard fruitful, God sent his only begotten Son, but even he was rejected. <br> How are we tending the vineyard? We have received so much from God, but are we making the world fruitful? Are we responding to the Lord's invitation with the works of justice, love, peace, chastity, respect for others? Or are we more or less killing the messengers? <br> There are many ways to look at contemporary secularism and relativism. A secularist world is one that has grown intentionally deaf to the voice of the Spirit. St. John Paul II called it "the culture of death." God, as is his wont, allows us to feel the effects of our sin. <br> Okay, but we are never meant to read the Gospel and end up depressed. The Gospel is always Good News. God has not given up on us! He turns the sign of defeat into the sign of victory. The very one whom we reject is the one whom he gives back to us as a source of life." end quote from Bishop Barron.</p> <hr> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">I often tell those that I am teaching, that to understand our Lord Jesus, you must understand the Old Testament. And if you look at the books in the bible, just the mere volume of what has transpired in the Old Testament, you will see that it is about 2/3 of the bible, and then we have the 1/3, the new Testament. It is 3 parts, like the Holy Trinity. It reveals to us the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.<br> <br> In today's Gospel, we heard about those that rejected Jesus and killed him, much like in the Old Testament when the brothers of Joseph wanted to kill him, and put him down an old well, a hole in the ground, after selling him for some pieces of silver as a slave to some traders. If you keep reading daily scripture you will see what happens next. By the way, if you keep up with all these daily readings and Mass readings for Sunday, we actually cover most of the bible in the span of 3 years, but you must read the old and the new. I've begun this year to only reflect on the new because it takes so much.<br> <br> I digress. Soon we will hear that Joseph in jail, a long convoluted story of love, would-be affair, and then thrown into jail. There he is revealed as the ultimate interpreter of dreams. And eventually interprets the Pharoa's dreams and is made his right hand man. And because of this one day, Joseph becomes his own people's savior during a drought and famine. There, I just summed up many chapters for you! LOL.<br> <br> But to get back to our Lord who said today that He would be rejected and thrown out and killed, it gets much deeper than Joseph. Joseph didn't die. Jesus did. Joseph was sold for silver. Jesus was sold for silver too. Joseph was mishandled and treated and put in jail. Jesus was brutally scourged, beaten, and thrown in to jail. Joseph was put in a hole in the ground. Jesus was laid dead in a tomb, a hole in the mountain. Joseph becomes savior for his family, his people. Jesus becomes savior of the whole world.<br> <br> And our Lord's words are still true today. He has ripped the Kingdom away from the old and put it in the hands of the new. <br> And if you will allow me to be blunt, the new is the Catholic Christendom. And in the last 600 years, protestants have been led astray by the devil causing much division among Christians. And it doesn't help when we have so many lax, lazy uneducated in the faith Catholics. We have what is called poor formation. <br> I am teaching those young ones what formation means. To conform ourselves to Christ our Lord and not to be conformed to the world.<br> <br> Such is the purpose of Lent. That we learn to accept what is not normal. What if God can treat us like dogs? He can. But He won't if we treat Him like God, our Father. And I say that because even dogs deserves scraps from the table of the Master. All Christians deserve to eat of our Lord from the Cross. But we have to work, not our salvation, but to work on ourselves to be pure and holy in order to accept Him more and more fully. <br> Lord, help us cherish Thy Precious Blood, Body, Soul, and divinity, and not disregard Thee as You enter our lives.</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-18 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-18"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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In consequence, their bodies would never have crumbled into dust, had they not sinned. If Eve, the beautiful daughter of God, never would have become dust and ashes unless she had sinned, shall we not say that Mary, having never sinned, retained the gift which Eve by sinning lost? … Therefore we believe that, though she died for a short hour, as did our Lord himself, yet like him, and by his almighty power, she was raised again from the grave." <br> —St. John Henry Newman, p. 259</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Verse</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; 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border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: right !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="320" alt="asaint" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4615/3294/original/asaint.png?1709217524" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-4 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Oswald</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Oswald of Worcester (d. 992) was born into a Danish family, but was raised from a young age in England by his uncle, the Archbishop of Canterbury. He received much of his schooling in France and it was there where he, desiring a stricter life of asceticism, took his monastic vows with the Benedictines. After returning to England he worked with the Archbishop of York and was made Bishop of Worcester in 961, and later Archbishop of York in 972. He is most remembered as a fervent supporter of church and monastic reforms. He invited many religious communities into the diocese, founded his own monasteries, and worked generously with the poor. His daily custom during Lent was to wash the feet of the poor. It was in this service that he died on February 29th in the year 992. His feast day is February 29th.</p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-5 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-5"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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}/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-6" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="530" alt="a1" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4615/3296/original/a1.png?1709217535" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-7 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-7 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Thursday of the Second Week of Lent</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reading 1 Jer 17:5-10</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Thus says the LORD: <br> Cursed is the man who trusts in human beings, <br> who seeks his strength in flesh, <br> whose heart turns away from the LORD. <br> He is like a barren bush in the desert <br> that enjoys no change of season, <br> But stands in a lava waste, <br> a salt and empty earth. <br> Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, <br> whose hope is the LORD. <br> He is like a tree planted beside the waters <br> that stretches out its roots to the stream: <br> It fears not the heat when it comes, <br> its leaves stay green; <br> In the year of drought it shows no distress, <br> but still bears fruit. <br> More tortuous than all else is the human heart, <br> beyond remedy; who can understand it? <br> I, the LORD, alone probe the mind <br> and test the heart, <br> To reward everyone according to his ways, <br> according to the merit of his deeds.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Responsorial Psalm Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. (40:5a) Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.</strong> <br> Blessed the man who follows not <br> the counsel of the wicked <br> Nor walks in the way of sinners, <br> nor sits in the company of the insolent, <br> But delights in the law of the LORD <br> and meditates on his law day and night. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.</strong> <br> He is like a tree <br> planted near running water, <br> That yields its fruit in due season, <br> and whose leaves never fade. <br> Whatever he does, prospers. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.</strong> <br> Not so, the wicked, not so; <br> they are like chaff which the wind drives away. <br> For the LORD watches over the way of the just, <br> but the way of the wicked vanishes. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.</strong></p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Verse Before the Gospel See Lk 8:15</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Blessed are they who have kept the word with a generous heart <br> and yield a harvest through perseverance.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Gospel Lk 16:19-31</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus said to the Pharisees: <br> "There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen <br> and dined sumptuously each day. <br> And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, <br> who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps <br> that fell from the rich man's table. <br> Dogs even used to come and lick his sores. <br> When the poor man died, <br> he was carried away by angels to the bosom of Abraham. <br> The rich man also died and was buried, <br> and from the netherworld, where he was in torment, <br> he raised his eyes and saw Abraham far off <br> and Lazarus at his side. <br> And he cried out, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me. <br> Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, <br> for I am suffering torment in these flames.' <br> Abraham replied, 'My child, <br> remember that you received what was good during your lifetime <br> while Lazarus likewise received what was bad; <br> but now he is comforted here, whereas you are tormented. <br> Moreover, between us and you a great chasm is established <br> to prevent anyone from crossing <br> who might wish to go from our side to yours <br> or from your side to ours.' <br> He said, 'Then I beg you, father, send him <br> to my father's house, <br> for I have five brothers, so that he may warn them, <br> lest they too come to this place of torment.' <br> But Abraham replied, 'They have Moses and the prophets. <br> Let them listen to them.' <br> He said, 'Oh no, father Abraham, <br> but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.' <br> Then Abraham said, <br> 'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, <br> neither will they be persuaded <br> if someone should rise from the dead.'"</p> <hr> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-8 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; 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color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=140711.8760.1.6cb25b3be54f7b5425ff07524dea6028"> <img width="80" alt="wauorg" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/1150/7480/original/wauorg.jpg?1473769568" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-12 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-12 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Meditation: Jeremiah 17:5-10</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><em style="font-style: italic;">In the year of drought it shows no distress. (Jeremiah 17:8)</em></p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Have you ever observed a desert landscape? It can be impressive to see how certain trees and plants can grow and even thrive in such an arid place! For example, the Joshua tree's massive root system can reach thirty feet down in search of water. Other plants retain water in their leaves and stems, building up a reserve for times of drought.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jeremiah uses the vivid imagery of thriving desert plants when he encourages the people of Jerusalem to be like "the man who trusts in the Lord" (17:7). They will be like a tree planted beside the water, stretching out its roots to the stream and storing reserves of life-giving water so that its leaves stay green (17:8).</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Images like this one in Scripture can inspire us to build our trust and hope in the Lord. How?</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">You can stretch your roots toward the stream by setting aside time every day to read and study the Bible. Maybe there's a particular Gospel or epistle that you want to get to know better. Find a good Scripture commentary or Bible study and dig into God's word. As you do, your "roots" will deepen. You'll be drawing closer to the source of living water, Christ himself.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">You can store up this living water by holding onto what the Lord teaches you through his word. Start a journal with your thoughts or impressions. As you write down your insights, you'll remember them better. Plus, you'll have something to go back to whenever you start feeling spiritually dry. If a particular Scripture verse touches you, commit it to memory! You'll be keeping the water of God's truth close at hand when the heat and drought come.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">We all face "deserts" or "scorching heat" in our lives. You might experience sickness, loss, or relationship struggles. God may seem far away, or the world around you may seem shrouded in darkness. These are the very times that you need to hang onto your trust in God. So keep stretching your roots toward your source of life. And tap into the living water that you have already collected.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Lord Jesus, your words are the source of life-giving water for me!"</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Psalm 1:1-4, 6 <br> Luke 16:19-31</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-13 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In the Gospel today we heard: <br> _"Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, <br> for I am suffering torment in these flames.' <br> Abraham replied, 'My child, <br> remember that you received what was good during your lifetime <br> while Lazarus likewise received what was bad; <br> but now he is comforted here, whereas you are tormented. <br> Moreover, between us and you a great chasm is established." <br> . . .</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-17 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-17 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">From Bishop Barron: <br> "Friends, today's Gospel reading is the story of the poor man Lazarus, who sat outside the door of a rich man and "would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man's table." The rich man isn't named, and that's very interesting. In the ancient world, the rich and powerful were the ones who deserved to have their names mentioned. Whose names weren't mentioned? The poor and the marginalized. So this is a very interesting reversal that is going on here. <br> And we know this story well, right? Day after day, the rich man walks past Lazarus, in and out of his house. When Lazarus dies, he's taken to the "bosom of Abraham." But the rich man dies and he's taken to the underworld. Again another reversal. You'd expect that God has blessed the rich and powerful and cursed those who are poor and hopeless. But that's not the way the Bible imagines this situation. It's Lazarus who's carried to paradise and the rich man who's carried downward. <br> There's the revolutionary quality of the Bible, turning our expectations upside down. How much do we care for those who are poor? Can we name them, or are they for us, as for ancient peoples, just a nameless mass of suffering people? And are we committed to helping these people by performing the corporal works of mercy?" end quote from Bishop Barron.</p> <hr> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">A great "chasm" is established in the next life; on the one side there is torment and suffering, and on the other is comfort and salvation.<br> <br> Who establishes that "chasm" that cannot be crossed? We could say the creator, our God, the Father has created it, but in reality, the chasm starts building right now with our relationships on earth with one another. And who is the poor Lazarus at your door? Or are you a poor Lazarus? At times it can be either or.<br> <br> But let's think of the poor at the door, because many poor folks aren't going to read this. No, their station in life is different. <br> And why would the rich man ignore the poor at the door?<br> <br> I can't imagine a poor person at my gate and me ever ignoring them, could you? And you all might think of me, Adrian, as a guy that should have all this figured out so he'd avoid going to suffering torments in the next life right?<br> <br> That's not the case. I'm on the constant lookout for Lazarus, and I believe he's at my door, and all I want to do is ignore him my help.<br> <br> Now, let's get things straight, I live out in the country outside the city a few miles. I have no stranger at my gates or doors. So how can I say this?<br> <br> At your door stand Jesus Knocking. <br> We've all seen the picture right? We know the story right? About the artist who painted it and when it was being viewed, a person asked the artist, "there's a mistake, you forgot to draw a door knob on the door". The artist said "It is not a mistake, at this door the only door knob is on the inside of the house". This means only we can open the door to our Lord. And by now, we know that this means the door of our heart. <br> And so, i can clearly think of one man at the door of my heart, well, actually 2 or 3 now that I think about it. Men in dire need. One living on the streets lost in drugs, lost the family. Another headed in that direction, and another barely scraping by having suffered much with drugs and hurting his family and all 3 of these men are in a state of mortal sin, facing eternal damnation. <br> Will they be eternally damned or myself for not having helped them?<br> <br> And why is it so hard for me to help them? <br> Man #1: I've tried for years to talk with him, took him to church and retreat, gave him work, housing, even after he was kicked out of his home I bought him a place to live in and he lost it too. I've tried so hard, yet he's still there at the door. As it stands today he owes us thousands in loans. <br> Man #2: Man has great job, but is dabbling with drugs and alochol, and at times never comes home to his family, out all night. I've spoke with him to come to church, and to retreat, but still have no in roads to the open heart. Jesus is knocking. <br> Man #3: I grew up with this man, now with his own family and business, dabbles with drugs and always on the verge of losing everything. Went once with me to a retreat. Has not gone to church anymore in a very long time. Try as I may, I cannot help them break away from the common denominator: Drugs? Sin. Drugs are a good analogy to sin. Once you get hooked, it can be hard to get off, and most often leads to death. Death to self, death to family, and worse, death to faith. Sin does this.<br> <br> This is why lent is good. That we turn from sin. And that we open the door to our Lord. I've had the hardest of times trying to help an addict. It's bad. And they say at rehabs it really boils down to the person to break free, their will. <br> And the same for a person that is demonically possessed. It boils down to them in an exorcism. And what is terrible about that is that demons are commanded to leave, but what about evil spirits we let into the depths of our hearts? That is why we hear the scripture from our God: <br> "More tortuous than all else is the human heart, <br> beyond remedy; who can understand it? <br> I, the LORD, alone probe the mind <br> and test the heart, <br> To reward everyone according to his ways, <br> according to the merit of his deeds."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">We will be rewarded accorded to our merits says our Lord.<br> <br> Right now on earth, we should be racking up good merits all day long.<br> <br> Is Lazarus at your door? Is He knocking? I always welcome these addicts and I try to help them as best I can. Now its on them to let the Lord in too! You see how strange things work. It's like the Lord is in everybody. Sometimes I'm knocking. Sometimes He is knocking.<br> <br> Let us take the message to heart. We are here for a short while. Everything must become as precious as He sees in His eyes. Every flower in the field, every bird in the sky...and above all that...you, for you are so much more precious, His child.<br> <br> Lord, I love You. 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Not much is known of his early life other than that he was from Sardinia. He rose to prominence in the Church when he became archdeacon under Pope St. Leo the Great, working closely with him as a trusted aid. St. Leo sent Hilary as one of the papal legates to the Council of Ephesus in 449. There St. Hilary fought bravely against the monophysite heresy, for which his life was threatened. He was forced into hiding and fled back to Rome for safety. He was so highly esteemed that after Pope Leo's death he was elected to the papacy. As pope, St. Hilary fought for the rights of the papacy in spiritual matters against the Roman Emperor, and increased organization and discipline between the bishops and the Holy See. He also did much work in building, remodeling, and decorating Roman churches and other public places. Pope St. Hilary's feast day is February 28.</p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-5 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-5"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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}/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-6" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="526" alt="a1" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4613/1239/original/a1.png?1709136259" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-7 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-7 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Wednesday of the Second Week of Lent</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reading 1 Jer 18:18-20</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">The people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem said, <br> "Come, let us contrive a plot against Jeremiah. <br> It will not mean the loss of instruction from the priests, <br> nor of counsel from the wise, nor of messages from the prophets. <br> And so, let us destroy him by his own tongue; <br> let us carefully note his every word."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Heed me, O LORD, <br> and listen to what my adversaries say. <br> Must good be repaid with evil <br> that they should dig a pit to take my life? <br> Remember that I stood before you <br> to speak in their behalf, <br> to turn away your wrath from them.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Responsorial Psalm Ps 31:5-6, 14, 15-16</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. (17b) Save me, O Lord, in your kindness.</strong> <br> You will free me from the snare they set for me, <br> for you are my refuge. <br> Into your hands I commend my spirit; <br> you will redeem me, O LORD, O faithful God. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Save me, O Lord, in your kindness.</strong> <br> I hear the whispers of the crowd, that frighten me from every side, <br> as they consult together against me, plotting to take my life. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Save me, O Lord, in your kindness.</strong> <br> But my trust is in you, O LORD; <br> I say, "You are my God." <br> In your hands is my destiny; rescue me <br> from the clutches of my enemies and my persecutors. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Save me, O Lord, in your kindness.</strong></p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Verse Before the Gospel Jn 8:12</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">I am the light of the world, says the Lord; <br> whoever follows me will have the light of life.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Gospel Mt 20:17-28</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, <br> he took the Twelve disciples aside by themselves, <br> and said to them on the way, <br> "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, <br> and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests <br> and the scribes, <br> and they will condemn him to death, <br> and hand him over to the Gentiles <br> to be mocked and scourged and crucified, <br> and he will be raised on the third day."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee approached Jesus with her sons <br> and did him homage, wishing to ask him for something. <br> He said to her, "What do you wish?" <br> She answered him, <br> "Command that these two sons of mine sit, <br> one at your right and the other at your left, in your kingdom." <br> Jesus said in reply, <br> "You do not know what you are asking. <br> Can you drink the chalice that I am going to drink?" <br> They said to him, "We can." <br> He replied, <br> "My chalice you will indeed drink, <br> but to sit at my right and at my left, <br> this is not mine to give <br> but is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father." <br> When the ten heard this, <br> they became indignant at the two brothers. <br> But Jesus summoned them and said, <br> "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, <br> and the great ones make their authority over them felt. <br> But it shall not be so among you. <br> Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you shall be your servant; <br> whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave. <br> Just so, the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve <br> and to give his life as a ransom for many."</p> <hr> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-8 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; text-align: left; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="center" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table,table.module-8{width:35.47%;float:left;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table a{border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:100%!important;border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 20px 20px 0}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> div.module-8 table.list-item td.numeric-text, div.module-8 table.last-list-item td.numeric-text{ width: 305px !important; 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line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Meditation: Matthew 20:17-28</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><em style="font-style: italic;">He took the Twelve disciples aside by themselves. (Matthew 20:17)</em></p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">What kind of teacher was Jesus? The kind who never wasted an opportunity to help his students grow and learn! Some of his lessons were prepared ahead of time; others arose from the disciples' questions or reactions. In today's Gospel, we see these kinds of interactions with his closest disciples.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus teaches prepared lessons. He explains to his apostles why he is heading to Jerusalem and what will happen to him there. When these terrible events unfold, he wants them to understand that it's not a setback; it's essential to God's plan of salvation. He knows they probably won't understand this at the moment of his death, but he wants to assure them that death will not have the final word. He will be raised.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus also responds to situations that arise. At this crucial moment, the mother of James and John approaches Jesus. With a patient smile, Jesus invites her to tell him what she wants, and she asks for privileged places for her sons in the coming kingdom. He makes sure James and John understand that following him involves sacrifice and suffering long before it results in honor. When they say that they are ready, Jesus doesn't contradict them. He accepts their good intentions and affirms that they will walk in his footsteps.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus doesn't let a teachable moment pass him by. He observes how this conversation affects the other ten apostles. They are indignant! Why should James and John be given higher status than the rest of them? We can imagine Jesus sighing deeply as he uses the opportunity to draw a striking portrait of servant leadership, so different from the domination that worldly leaders exercise (Matthew 20:25-26). He drives the lesson home by highlighting his own example—an example of service and love that he wants them to follow (20:28).</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">We can easily imagine ourselves in these very human scenes. How privileged we are to have such a patient, perceptive, and gentle teacher! He knows just what lesson we need at each moment in our lives. So ask Jesus what he wants to teach you today. Then sit at his feet, as his disciples did, and listen to him.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Jesus, I invite you to keep teaching me as I walk with you day by day."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jeremiah 18:18-20 <br> Psalm 31:5-6, 14-16</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-13 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; text-align: left; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="center" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table,table.module-15{width:18.87%;float:right;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table a{border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:100%!important;border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 0 20px 20px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> div.module-15 table.list-item td.numeric-text, div.module-15 table.last-list-item td.numeric-text{ width: 393px !important; }div.module-15 table.list-item td.bullet-text, div.module-15 table.last-list-item td.bullet-text{ width: 413px !important; }table.image-15-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }table.module-15, table.module-15 td.image-1{ width: 100px; padding: 0 0 0 20px; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module caption combo-right" dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-15" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: right !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <a target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=140546.8748.1.f20856612c2268b7b96569aa14178ccc"> <img width="80" alt="going4thpodcast" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/3679/1452/original/going4thpodcast.png?1677084405" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </a> <p style="color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; font-style: italic; clear: both;" align="left">click to hear 2cents</p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-15 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reflections with Brother Adrian: <br> <a target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=140546.8749.1.e13a196a67598bed32a664b815fd6e6d">Audio English </a></p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-16 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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}div.module-16 table.list-item td.bullet-text, div.module-16 table.last-list-item td.bullet-text{ width: 350px !important; }table.image-16-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }table.module-16, table.module-16 td.image-1{ width: 163px; padding: 0 20px 0 0; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module combo-left" dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-16" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: left !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-right: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="143" alt="2cents2" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/3780/4363/original/2cents2.jpg?1681226341" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span class="module-16 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In the Gospel today we heard: <br> _"You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, <br> and the great ones make their authority over them felt. <br> But it shall not be so among you. <br> Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you shall be your servant; <br> whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave. <br> Just so, the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve <br> and to give his life as a ransom for many." <br> . . .</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-17 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-17 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Who is sitting at the right hand and left hand of our Lord right now in Heaven? Who knows! Does it matter? Perhaps in Heaven yes, but here, all that matters is what our Lord Jesus says. And He gives the order of Heaven. <br> "...whoever wishes to be great among you shall be your servant; <br> whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave." <br> Because in Heaven, things are in right order.<br> <br> But there is something that scares me about Heaven.<br> <br> If you read the book of Genesis and the book of Revelation, there seems to be one common thing...free will. <br> The greatest and most beautiful and intelligent angel, Lucifer, the angel of lights, had a free will, and the idea there is that it almost seemed as he thought he knew better than God. <br> And this is the EXACT sentiment we face today. <br> Think of the oblivious and sometimes obnoxious teenagers that think they know better than their parents. <br> They fight with their parents. They disobey their parents. The even tell their parents that they hate them. Where is the order? Where is the grateful attitude we'd expect?<br> <br> Well, please do not be offended, but this is EXACTLY how our Lord sees the world. Ungrateful at best.<br> <br> I remember a couple of years before COVID, I had a statue of our Lady of Grace in our back yard, and it began weeping it seemed. The eyes seemed to show tears running down her face. I was baffled. There was no water around it, no trees to make it affect just the eyes. No logical explanation. I began putting flowers and to pray, not to the statue, (this is ridiculous, sorry protestants thats just plain idol worship I agree) but to take it as a sign of things to come, and as a sign from me trying to make up to Mother Mary for her sorrowful tears.</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-18 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="center" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td,table.module-18{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table a{border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:100%!important;border:0 none;text-decoration:none}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> table.image-18-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-18" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="530" alt="20210630 202159" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4613/2237/original/20210630_202159.jpg?1709138869" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-19 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-19 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">And I took the 2 years of tears as a sign later, of what was about to happen. The world was not getting better...for God. Then COVID struck, for a good 2 years.<br> <br> Now, after COVID, the world seems more open to the things of God. <br> Her tears are gone. Vanished with no logical explanation. The world seems now, as if trying to listen more. But there is one thing lacking....still. What is it? Gratefulness.<br> <br> Yes, we are not obnoxious as much, but still, not as grateful. <br> This is the whole point of the Eucharist. <br> And so, our Lord shows us how to be perfect. To let ourselves be ground up by the world, and how? <br> "whoever wishes to be great among you shall be your servant; <br> whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">We become more for the light from God, if we become less in the eyes of the world. To the point that you become invisible.<br> <br> That is what astonishes me about the resurrection. Sure our Lord returned, but He didn't come to Lord Himself over us, or to say "Haha I told you so!". No. Instead, He came to edify us, to become one in us in the Holy Spirit, invisible. He came to encourage us, to show us how to become...less. <br> Oh that we would just listen, and tear ourselves open to God the Father. <br> With our free will we can do marvels. Or we can become obnoxious spoiled kids that just want everything their way. <br> How can we make a return? True gratitude is true humility in obedience. An affliction should help us stay grounded with the Lord. Humility comes from the word "humus" which means dirt. <br> Remember you are dirt and to dirt you will return. <br> But God our Father can raise us from the dirt and give life to our bones. <br> I am afraid to offend God, but mostly to offend the gift of Love He has endowed us with. <br> Lord, Help us Love Thee as we ought.</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-20 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-20"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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There is a particular spiritual practice that Francis [de Sales] highly recommends that is possible for all of us: even on those 'impossible' days when we are perhaps unable to undertake our normal spiritual practices, we can stay rooted in prayer by constantly addressing brief prayers to the Lord. These can be acts of love, of adoration, of faith, of hope, of petition, or simply saying the name of Jesus—throughout the course of the day. Francis places a very high value on these simple utterances, traditionally called ejaculatory prayers or aspirations." <br> —Ralph Martin, p. 135</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Verse</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"O God, thou art my God, I seek thee, my soul thirsts for thee; my flesh faints for thee, as in a dry and weary land where no water is. So I have looked upon thee in the sanctuary, beholding thy power and glory. Because thy steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise thee. So I will bless thee as long as I live; I will lift up my hands and call on thy name." <br> –Psalm 63:1-4</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-2 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-2"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table div table,table.module-4{width:64.34%;float:right;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table div table a{border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:100%!important;border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 0 20px 20px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> div.module-4 table.list-item td.numeric-text, div.module-4 table.last-list-item td.numeric-text{ width: 152px !important; }div.module-4 table.list-item td.bullet-text, div.module-4 table.last-list-item td.bullet-text{ width: 172px !important; }table.image-4-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }table.module-4, table.module-4 td.image-1{ width: 341px; padding: 0 0 0 20px; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module combo-right" dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-4" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: right !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="321" alt="asaint" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4610/0934/original/asaint.png?1709042634" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-4 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Gabriel Possenti</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Gabriel Possenti (1838-1862), also known as St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, was one of thirteen children born to a well-to-do Italian family in Assisi. As a young man he enjoyed the society and the worldly life of a typical teenager. He was known as a fancy dresser and a good dancer, he possessed good horsemanship and marksmanship, he frequented parties, and twice was engaged to be married. After his graduation from school he shocked everyone by announcing that he was going to be a Passionist priest, having been inspired to his vocation by the Blessed Virgin Mary, to whom his family had a great devotion. His life was then marked with prayer, sacrifice, and devotion to Our Lady of Sorrows, taking the religious name Gabriel of the Sorrowful Mother. He was stricken with tuberculosis about a year before he was to be ordained, and died at the age of 24. Many miracles were attributed to him after his death, including the healing of St. Gemma Galgani. St. Gabriel Possenti is the patron saint of Catholic youth, seminarians, clerics, students, and Catholic Action. His feast day is February 27th.</p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-5 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-5"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; height: auto !important;"> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-6 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="center" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td,table.module-6{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table a{border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:100%!important;border:0 none;text-decoration:none}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> table.image-6-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-6" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="530" alt="a1" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4610/0947/original/a1.png?1709042669" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-7 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-7 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reading 1 Is 1:10, 16-20</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Hear the word of the LORD, <br> princes of Sodom! <br> Listen to the instruction of our God, <br> people of Gomorrah!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Wash yourselves clean! <br> Put away your misdeeds from before my eyes; <br> cease doing evil; learn to do good. <br> Make justice your aim: redress the wronged, <br> hear the orphan's plea, defend the widow.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Come now, let us set things right, <br> says the LORD: <br> Though your sins be like scarlet, <br> they may become white as snow; <br> Though they be crimson red, <br> they may become white as wool. <br> If you are willing, and obey, <br> you shall eat the good things of the land; <br> But if you refuse and resist, <br> the sword shall consume you: <br> for the mouth of the LORD has spoken!</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Responsorial Psalm Ps 50:8-9, 16bc-17, 21 and 23</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. (23b) To the upright I will show the saving power of God.</strong> <br> "Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you, <br> for your burnt offerings are before me always. <br> I take from your house no bullock, <br> no goats out of your fold." <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. To the upright I will show the saving power of God.</strong> <br> "Why do you recite my statutes, <br> and profess my covenant with your mouth, <br> Though you hate discipline <br> and cast my words behind you?" <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. To the upright I will show the saving power of God.</strong> <br> "When you do these things, shall I be deaf to it? <br> Or do you think that I am like yourself? <br> I will correct you by drawing them up before your eyes. <br> He that offers praise as a sacrifice glorifies me; <br> and to him that goes the right way I will show the salvation of God." <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. To the upright I will show the saving power of God.</strong></p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Verse Before the Gospel Ez 18:31</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Cast away from you all the crimes you have committed, says the LORD, <br> and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Gospel Mt 23:1-12</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, saying, <br> "The scribes and the Pharisees <br> have taken their seat on the chair of Moses. <br> Therefore, do and observe all things whatsoever they tell you, <br> but do not follow their example. <br> For they preach but they do not practice. <br> They tie up heavy burdens hard to carry <br> and lay them on people's shoulders, <br> but they will not lift a finger to move them. <br> All their works are performed to be seen. <br> They widen their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels. <br> They love places of honor at banquets, seats of honor in synagogues, <br> greetings in marketplaces, and the salutation 'Rabbi.' <br> As for you, do not be called 'Rabbi.' <br> You have but one teacher, and you are all brothers. <br> Call no one on earth your father; <br> you have but one Father in heaven. <br> Do not be called 'Master'; <br> you have but one master, the Christ. <br> The greatest among you must be your servant. <br> Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; <br> but whoever humbles himself will be exalted."</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-8 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; text-align: left; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="center" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table,table.module-8{width:35.47%;float:left;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table a{border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:100%!important;border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 20px 20px 0}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> div.module-8 table.list-item td.numeric-text, div.module-8 table.last-list-item td.numeric-text{ width: 305px !important; 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color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=140406.8734.1.47d003aa25791b793f293e7597eb8a4d"> <img width="80" alt="wauorg" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/1150/7480/original/wauorg.jpg?1473769568" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-12 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-12 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Meditation: Isaiah 1:10, 16-20</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><em style="font-style: italic;">Come now, let us set things right. (Isaiah 1:18)</em></p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">When the prophet Isaiah speaks of God proposing to "set things right" with Israel, he's using Hebrew words that suggest arbitration or settling a case between two people. You can almost picture two people sitting across a table from one another, hashing out the details of an agreement. Or figuring out how to split responsibility for a bill.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Setting things right with God: isn't this what Lent is all about?</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Obviously, this isn't something we can do ourselves. Sure, we can do our part to "make justice [our] aim" through specific actions or decisions (Isaiah 1:17). These actions show that we want to live a just life and follow God's ways. But each time we fall short, we get a humbling reminder that our part only goes so far. We simply can't set things right permanently and perfectly.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Thanks be to God, it's the Lord who does the heavy lifting. He does it by taking our sins, red as scarlet, and making them white as snow (Isaiah 1:18). He sees the reality of our sins, our misdeeds, and our disobedience, and he offers us something we could never accomplish ourselves: the chance to be washed clean (1:16). What we could not do, God does. Through the suffering, death, and resurrection of his Son, he forgives us and restores our relationship with him.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Every time you receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation, God powerfully cleanses you and "sets things right." In Confession, you can bring all the ways that your "aim for justice" was a bit off. You can bring to him all the choices that kept you from loving God and his people. And God does the rest as he absolves you and mends your relationship with him.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Just think—this Lent, you can grow closer to the Lord than ever before! As you make the effort to return to him, he will draw you even closer to himself. He will cleanse you and make you whole. He is waiting for you to approach him, especially in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Will you open your heart to him and let him set things right?</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Lord, thank you for this season of Lent when I can be reconciled with you!"</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Psalm 50:8-9, 16-17, 21, 23 <br> Matthew 23:1-12</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-13 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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}div.module-15 table.list-item td.bullet-text, div.module-15 table.last-list-item td.bullet-text{ width: 413px !important; }table.image-15-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }table.module-15, table.module-15 td.image-1{ width: 100px; padding: 0 0 0 20px; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module caption combo-right" dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-15" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: right !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <a target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=140406.8735.1.92cc3a1474f6ef8403dd8aa3ebdbe210"> <img width="80" alt="going4thpodcast" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/3679/1452/original/going4thpodcast.png?1677084405" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </a> <p style="color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; font-style: italic; clear: both;" align="left">click to hear 2cents</p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-15 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reflections with Brother Adrian: <br> <a target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=140406.8736.1.97210696ffbf03889e673651b28277f9">Audio English </a></p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-16 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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}div.module-16 table.list-item td.bullet-text, div.module-16 table.last-list-item td.bullet-text{ width: 350px !important; }table.image-16-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }table.module-16, table.module-16 td.image-1{ width: 163px; padding: 0 20px 0 0; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module combo-left" dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-16" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: left !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-right: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="143" alt="2cents2" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/3780/4363/original/2cents2.jpg?1681226341" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span class="module-16 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In the Gospel today we heard: <br> _"The scribes and the Pharisees <br> have taken their seat on the chair of Moses. <br> Therefore, do and observe all things whatsoever they tell you, <br> but do not follow their example. <br> For they preach but they do not practice. " <br> . . .</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-17 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-17 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">And this is where we have some protestants begin to argue with the first Christians, the Catholics, when they see that later in the same Gospel our Lord says "call no one Father". But we cannot take that line out of context. We cannot call anyone father because we have only one Father in Heaven, right? But let's read the next verses: "Do not be called 'Master'; <br> you have but one master, the Christ. <br> The greatest among you must be your servant." <br> In Spanish, the word "master" has more meaning, it can mean like the slave owners, or the one above you as you place him there as basically a Lord. The Spanish bibe version makes masters sounds like guides.<br> <br> But Jesus comes to reveal Himself. He is telling us all that only He, who is God, can be called truly the Father, and the Master of all. He is always putting himself above their beloved temple and their laws and themselves! Why? Because this is right and just. He is diverting us from multiple gods and confusions to the one true God who He is.<br> <br> "They do not practice what they preach", says our Lord. <br> "...you have but one master, the Christ. <br> The greatest among you must be your servant." <br> And this is where the truth is being revealed...at the end, at the last, where the last shall be first. <br> One day, this lent, all of us should read or pray the litany of humility. <br> In the litany, we place everyone else above ourselves. This is completely backwards from world teachings and ideology. <br> How can we be servants of the servants?<br> <br> If you really want to excel in your holiness, you will have to learn from the Master, Jesus. It will take discipline. This is the purpose of lent, that we discipline ourselves to become true disciples of the living Word of the Christ, the Messiah. By following our Master, the Lord, we will learn how to truly be warriors of holiness and righteousness. We will learn how to take hits and make them more effective for God's kingdom, by allowing ourselves to be filled with God's grace, and so when the enemy strikes, when they hit us, we will explode with love, life, and grace, like our Lord did from the cross. But first comes Love. Love of the blood of the Lamb. Love of the body of Christ. Love of the Master. Love of the oozing honey that tastes bitter at first, and then oh so sweet to the palate the connected infusion of our mouth to the soul. Yes my dear, I am speaking of the Holy Eucharist. There our souls will realize just who truly is the true Father, Master, Guiding light, and in Him, the totality of life itself, the warmth in the night, the everlasting life and light.<br> <br> My Lord, My Father, Master, teach me to know the righteousness You desire, that I might learn the art of grace, of being filled with grace to transform the darkness of the world in to light.</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-18 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-18"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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At one and the same time—this is the wonder—as man He was a human life, and as Word He was sustaining the life of the universe, and as Son He was in constant union with the Father." <br> –St. Athanasius of Alexandria</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Today's Meditation</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"See, you're bought at a great price. We're told that in Scripture over and over and over. Jesus died for you! And, because He bought you at a great price, you have to understand that you're never alone. You are very, very special to God. But some of you who don't understand that think that God doesn't care. I get that feeling myself sometimes. I've said to Our Lord, "Look, don't You care? Whose side are You on?" I have myself been disheartened. But, in spite of the difficulties within and without, I try to keep my eyes on Jesus and know that Our Lord and Savior loves me, knows me, and has chosen me to be great in His eyes – to be holy, to be saintly, to be compassionate, and to be good." <br> —Mother Angelica, p. 44</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Verse</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known. So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">–1 Corinthians 13:12-13</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-2 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-2"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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}/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module small-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-3" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="81" alt="SaintofDay1" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/1257/7637/original/SaintofDay1.gif?1473769568" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-right table-4 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; text-align: left; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="center" id="" style="padding-top: 0; 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border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: right !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="360" alt="1000004687" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4607/6708/original/1000004687.jpg?1708956642" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-4 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Porphyry</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Porphyry (Porphyrius) of Gaza (c. 347-420 A.D.) was born in Thessalonica in present-day Greece. Although a wealthy man, at the age of 25 he went to live in Egypt as a desert hermit. He later moved to Palestine near the Jordan River, then to Jerusalem itself. He did great penances and would often visit the holy places where Jesus lived and walked, despite his poor health. He then renounced all material goods and his inheritance and became a priest in Jerusalem at the age of 40. The relics of the True Cross in Jerusalem were entrusted to his care. Despite his protests he was ordained Bishop of Gaza, a pagan stronghold with an insignificant Christian community. Gaza's pagans were hostile, and St. Porphyry appealed to the emperor for protection and for the destruction of pagan temples, which he obtained. St. Porphyry built a Christian church on the site of the most important pagan temple dedicated to the chief god, so that he could say Mass in the place where the devil was previously most honored. St. Porphyry labored for his flock and won many converts through his miracles, though pagan opposition continued throughout his life. He was successful in spreading the Christian faith across his diocese. His feast day is February 26.</p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-5 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-5"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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}/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-6" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="530" alt="1000004683" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4607/6618/original/1000004683.jpg?1708956247" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-7 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-7 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Monday of the Second Week in Lent <br> Lectionary: 230</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reading 1</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Dn 9:4b-10</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Lord, great and awesome God, <br> you who keep your merciful covenant toward those who love you <br> and observe your commandments! <br> We have sinned, been wicked and done evil; <br> we have rebelled and departed from your commandments and your laws. <br> We have not obeyed your servants the prophets, <br> who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, <br> our fathers, and all the people of the land. <br> Justice, O Lord, is on your side; <br> we are shamefaced even to this day: <br> we, the men of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, <br> and all Israel, near and far, <br> in all the countries to which you have scattered them <br> because of their treachery toward you. <br> O LORD, we are shamefaced, like our kings, our princes, and our fathers, <br> for having sinned against you. <br> But yours, O Lord, our God, are compassion and forgiveness! <br> Yet we rebelled against you <br> and paid no heed to your command, O LORD, our God, <br> to live by the law you gave us through your servants the prophets."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Responsorial Psalm</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Ps 79:8, 9, 11 and 13</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. (see 103:10a) Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins.</strong> <br> Remember not against us the iniquities of the past; <br> may your compassion quickly come to us, <br> for we are brought very low. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins.</strong> <br> Help us, O God our savior, <br> because of the glory of your name; <br> Deliver us and pardon our sins <br> for your name's sake. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins.</strong> <br> Let the prisoners' sighing come before you; <br> with your great power free those doomed to death. <br> Then we, your people and the sheep of your pasture, <br> will give thanks to you forever; <br> through all generations we will declare your praise. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Lord, do not deal with us according to our sins.</strong></p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Verse Before the Gospel</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">See Jn 6:63c, 68c</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Your words, Lord, are Spirit and life; <br> you have the words of everlasting life.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Gospel</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Lk 6:36-38</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus said to his disciples: <br> "Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Stop judging and you will not be judged. <br> Stop condemning and you will not be condemned. <br> Forgive and you will be forgiven. <br> Give and gifts will be given to you; <br> a good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing, <br> will be poured into your lap. <br> For the measure with which you measure <br> will in return be measured out to you."</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-8 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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}/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-10" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="530" alt="1000004685" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4607/6633/original/1000004685.jpg?1708956305" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-11 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="center" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table.module-11{width:15.09%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:15.09%;float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table a{border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:100%!important;border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> table.image-11-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-11" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <a target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=140132.8721.1.f1da6d41daea2e8e1e3f5a93e43181c4"> <img width="80" alt="wauorg" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/1150/7480/original/wauorg.jpg?1473769568" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-12 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-12 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">DAILY MEDITATION: LUKE 6:36-38 <br> <em style="font-style: italic;">The measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you. (Luke 6:38)</em></p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">What is the "measure" Jesus is talking about (Luke 6:38)? It's how we treat people. Jesus promises that when we are merciful and generous to others, he will be merciful and generous to us. When we don't judge and condemn, neither will we be subject to judgment and condemnation.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Isn't this also true with the people we relate to each day? The measure we measure out is often what we can expect from them in return. So let's look at today's Gospel with that perspective in mind.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Stop judging (Luke 6:37). How many times do we judge someone, especially when we've been treated poorly? We tend to see them in a distorted way—they're selfish or uncaring or thoughtless—and in our eyes, they become those things. We could instead ask the Lord to help us see the other person through his eyes. As they sense our new attitude, they're more likely to let down their defenses, and the whole tenor of our relationship with them can change.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Forgive and you will be forgiven (Luke 6:37). In wounded relationships, we tend to focus on how we've been offended, not on how we might have offended the other person. What if we asked the Lord to show us how we may have hurt that person in some way or other? That might soften our hearts so that we can forgive them. And if we approach them to tell them that we are sorry, it might just open up an opportunity for mutual forgiveness and reconciliation.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Give and gifts will be given to you (Luke 6:38). We show our love to people by giving of ourselves. The more generous we are with our time, attention, and affection, the more our relationships tend to grow and flourish. Then the more "gifts" of love and affection we are able to receive from the other person in return.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Is there one relationship you can think of that would benefit from less of your judgment and more of your compassion, mercy, and generosity? If so, offer that person your "good measure" today (Luke 6:38). Then see how the Lord uses it to give you a good measure in return.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Jesus, give me the grace to treat others the way I want to be treated."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daniel 9:4-10 <br> Psalm 79:8-9, 11, 13</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-13 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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}div.module-15 table.list-item td.bullet-text, div.module-15 table.last-list-item td.bullet-text{ width: 413px !important; }table.image-15-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }table.module-15, table.module-15 td.image-1{ width: 100px; padding: 0 0 0 20px; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module caption combo-right" dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-15" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: right !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <a target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=140132.8722.1.e2fc043d818a480940a7e2238a8f8868"> <img width="80" alt="going4thpodcast" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/3679/1452/original/going4thpodcast.png?1677084405" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </a> <p style="color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; font-style: italic; clear: both;" align="left">click to hear 2cents</p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-15 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reflections with Brother Adrian: <br> <a target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=140132.8723.1.2c5717059ccb3e930b8d56b5dc4a56f6">Audio English </a></p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-16 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; text-align: left; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="center" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table,table.module-16{width:30.75%;float:left;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table a{border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:100%!important;border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 20px 20px 0}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> div.module-16 table.list-item td.numeric-text, div.module-16 table.last-list-item td.numeric-text{ width: 330px !important; }div.module-16 table.list-item td.bullet-text, div.module-16 table.last-list-item td.bullet-text{ width: 350px !important; }table.image-16-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }table.module-16, table.module-16 td.image-1{ width: 163px; padding: 0 20px 0 0; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module combo-left" dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-16" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: left !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-right: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="143" alt="2cents2" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/3780/4363/original/2cents2.jpg?1681226341" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span class="module-16 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In the Gospel today we heard: <br> _""Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. <br> "Stop judging and you will not be judged. <br> Stop condemning and you will not be condemned. <br> Forgive and you will be forgiven. <br> Give and gifts will be given to you; <br> a good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing, <br> will be poured into your lap. <br> For the measure with which you measure <br> will in return be measured out to you." <br> . . .</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-17 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-17 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Stop judging! That's what the Lord said! Right? <br> The evil one loves this one liner, this quick twisted message to throw against those who are telling them what to do. I've even heard a priest tell others "stop judging" and then they say "only the Lord can judge!". Well. That's not all the Lord said today. Right? Our Lord knows that we have to judge things all day long! So let's do what we always have to do with protestants when they argue with the original Christians, the Catholics. All the Catholic has to do is say "Let's read the next verse!" and 9 times out of 10 you will have a more full explanation of what our Lord fully intends to say. And to day what did He say next? "Stop condemning and you will not be condemned." That's what He meant! When we judge with a mean spirit, we are literally condemning! Aren't we? Isn't it the truth? But we know full well that we are to admonish the sinner, but we are not to condemn the sinner...or else...we will condemn ourselves! Correcting sinners and ourselves is what we are supposed to do! For the love of God! Amen? And so what is the next verse? <br> "Forgive and you will be forgiven." Think of the words of the resurrected Lord when He shocked His disciples upon entering the upper room. They all thought He was dead. They all thought they were dead too...any time soon. And what did He do? He said "Peace". And then what did He do? He breathed on His disciples saying "Jesus said to them, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent Me, so also I am sending you." 22When He had said this, He breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit. 23If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you withhold forgiveness from anyone, it is withheld." <br> It was for this reason that our Lord came. So that we may avail forgiveness through the Church, and through each other. Here it was that the Church was given authority to forgive. And we too should note, that we are to forgive others, as we want to be forgiven. <br> The law of God has been written then, in our baptized hearts. <br> Lastly, our Lord says give. Give you want to receive. <br> What do you want in this life? Peace? Then offer peace. <br> What do you want? Even money? Then start learning to give. LOL, I'm a business man, and let me tell you, it takes money to make money. How will you make anything if you don't give anything there either? The same it is with the Lord. He wants us to give to Him. Give to Him in church and ministries, let it go. <br> But what else can we give this lent? Love. Kindness. Forgiveness. All things Lent is calling us to do, to stop being like the world, and start being more like our Lord in Heaven.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Lord, you've asked so much of me, yet so little. Help me be like You Lord, loving and forgiving, but yet, demanding that one thing...Love from Above, to rule our land, and our heart. 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I want to do God's Holy Will, not my own." <br> –St. Gabriel Possenti</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Today's Meditation</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"God sees you in secret. Know that he sees into your very depths, infinitely farther than you do yourself. Make a simple, lively act of faith in his presence. Christian soul, place yourself entirely under his gaze. He is very near. He is present, for he gives being and motion to all things. Yet you must believe more; you must believe with a lively faith that he is present to you by giving you all of your good thoughts from within, as holding in his hand the source from which they come, and not only the good thoughts, but also whatever good desires, good resolutions, and ev¬ery good act of the will, from its very first beginning and birth to its final perfection. Believe, too, that he is in the souls of the just, and that he makes his dwelling there within, according to these words of the Lord: 'We will come to him and make our home with him' (John 14:23). He is there in a stable and permanent way: he makes his home there. Desire that he should be in you in this way. Offer yourself to him as his dwelling and temple. Now come out, and with the same faith that enables you to see him within you, look upon him in Heaven, where he manifests himself to his beloved. It is there that he awaits you. Run. Fly. Break your chains; break all the bonds that tie you down to flesh and blood. O God, when shall I see you? When will I have that pure heart that enables you to be seen, in yourself, outside of yourself, ev¬erywhere? O Light that enlightens the world! O Life that gives life to all the living! O Truth that feeds us all! O Good that satisfies us all! O Love that binds all together! I praise you, my heavenly Father, who sees me in secret." <br> —Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, p. 4-5</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Verse</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that made us whole, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all." <br> –Isaiah 53:4-6</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-2 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-2"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: right !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="306" alt="asaint" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4601/8981/original/asaint.png?1708697324" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-4 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Polycarp of Smyrna</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Polycarp of Smyrna (c. 69-155 A.D.) became a Christian in his youth, a disciple of St. John the Evangelist. St. John ordained him Bishop of Smyrna (in modern day Turkey) and from this position Polycarp became one of the most illustrious of the Apostolic Fathers. His closeness with the Apostles, and the long life that he lived, enabled him to protect the Church against heresy. The account of his martyrdom is well-preserved and is one of the earliest in the Church. Knowing the government was seeking his life, he received a vision while praying that he would be burned alive. After his capture he was encouraged to submit to Caeser in order to be released, but he refused. He was then taken to a public arena to be killed. He gave an outstanding testimony, declaring that he had served Christ for 86 years. Witnesses of his execution saw the flames surround his body without burning it, and that Polycarp began to glow and emit a sweet aroma. This amazed the crowds, and his executioners were then ordered to stab him to death. St. Polycarp is the patron saint against dysentery and earache. His feast day is February 23rd</p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-5 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-5"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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}/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-6" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="530" alt="a1" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4601/8986/original/a1.png?1708697336" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-7 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-7 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Friday of the First Week of Lent</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">• Readings for the Optional Memorial of Saint Polycarp, bishop and martyr</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reading 1 Ez 18:21-28</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Thus says the Lord GOD: <br> If the wicked man turns away from all the sins he committed, <br> if he keeps all my statutes and does what is right and just, <br> he shall surely live, he shall not die. <br> None of the crimes he committed shall be remembered against him; <br> he shall live because of the virtue he has practiced. <br> Do I indeed derive any pleasure from the death of the wicked? <br> says the Lord GOD. <br> Do I not rather rejoice when he turns from his evil way <br> that he may live?</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">And if the virtuous man turns from the path of virtue to do evil, <br> the same kind of abominable things that the wicked man does, <br> can he do this and still live? <br> None of his virtuous deeds shall be remembered, <br> because he has broken faith and committed sin; <br> because of this, he shall die. <br> You say, "The LORD's way is not fair!" <br> Hear now, house of Israel: <br> Is it my way that is unfair, or rather, are not your ways unfair? <br> When someone virtuous turns away from virtue to commit iniquity, and dies, <br> it is because of the iniquity he committed that he must die. <br> But if the wicked, turning from the wickedness he has committed, <br> does what is right and just, <br> he shall preserve his life; <br> since he has turned away from all the sins that he committed, <br> he shall surely live, he shall not die.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Responsorial Psalm Ps 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-7a, 7bc-8</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. (3) If you, O Lord, mark iniquities, who can stand?</strong> <br> Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD; <br> LORD, hear my voice! <br> Let your ears be attentive <br> to my voice in supplication. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. If you, O Lord, mark iniquities, who can stand?</strong> <br> If you, O LORD, mark iniquities, <br> LORD, who can stand? <br> But with you is forgiveness, <br> that you may be revered. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. If you, O Lord, mark iniquities, who can stand?</strong> <br> I trust in the LORD; <br> my soul trusts in his word. <br> My soul waits for the LORD <br> more than sentinels wait for the dawn. <br> Let Israel wait for the LORD. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. If you, O Lord, mark iniquities, who can stand?</strong> <br> For with the LORD is kindness <br> and with him is plenteous redemption; <br> And he will redeem Israel <br> from all their iniquities. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. If you, O Lord, mark iniquities, who can stand?</strong></p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Verse Before the Gospel Ez 18:31</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Cast away from you all the crimes you have committed, says the LORD, <br> And make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Gospel Mt 5:20-26</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus said to his disciples: <br> "I tell you, <br> unless your righteousness surpasses that <br> of the scribes and Pharisees, <br> you will not enter into the Kingdom of heaven.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"You have heard that it was said to your ancestors, <br> You shall not kill; and whoever kills will be liable to judgment. <br> But I say to you, whoever is angry with his brother <br> will be liable to judgment, <br> and whoever says to his brother, Raqa, <br> will be answerable to the Sanhedrin, <br> and whoever says, 'You fool,' will be liable to fiery Gehenna. <br> Therefore, if you bring your gift to the altar, <br> and there recall that your brother <br> has anything against you, <br> leave your gift there at the altar, <br> go first and be reconciled with your brother, <br> and then come and offer your gift. <br> Settle with your opponent quickly while on the way to court. <br> Otherwise your opponent will hand you over to the judge, <br> and the judge will hand you over to the guard, <br> and you will be thrown into prison. <br> Amen, I say to you, <br> you will not be released until you have paid the last penny."</p> <hr> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-8 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Meditation: Matthew 5:20-26</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><em style="font-style: italic;">Leave your gift there at the altar, go first and be reconciled with your brother. (Matthew 5:24)</em></p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus wasn't talking here to people who lived across the street from the Temple. He was talking to people living in Galilee. So for them, bringing a "gift to the altar" (Matthew 5:23) required a nearly eighty-mile trip to Jerusalem. Imagine someone making that journey and realizing, with just five miles to go, that they needed to return home to reconcile with a brother!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">It seems drastic. But to Jesus, the way we treat people is a big deal. His words emphasize the importance of resolving tensions in relationships rather than letting them persist. So he urges us, especially when we're getting ready to come to worship, to examine our relationships and, where necessary, return and reconcile before doing anything else.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Did you also notice that Jesus wants us to "leave our gift at the altar" and reconcile with someone who has something against us (Matthew 5:23)? How are we even supposed to know when this is the case?</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">You don't have to read someone else's mind to know if they have something against you. All you need to do is examine your own conscience. Search your heart and see if the Holy Spirit brings a situation to mind. If you see that you've hurt someone, or even recognize that you are avoiding someone you think is angry with you, then it's time to seek reconciliation.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">How? It depends. If your words have damaged the person, try to reconnect and make amends. If you have taken something material, or "stolen" someone's good name through gossip, do what you can to restore it. Reconcile wherever possible. But sometimes you can't. At those times, bring the situation to the Lord and ask his forgiveness even if you can't ask the other person.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">It's a serious thing to hurt our brothers and sisters. Serious enough that Jesus said it's better to walk eighty miles to reconcile. So let's make peace with the people in our lives before we come to the Lord in worship.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Jesus, help me to see any ways that I need to reconcile with someone."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Ezekiel 18:21-28 <br> Psalm 130:1-8</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-13 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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}div.module-16 table.list-item td.bullet-text, div.module-16 table.last-list-item td.bullet-text{ width: 350px !important; }table.image-16-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }table.module-16, table.module-16 td.image-1{ width: 163px; padding: 0 20px 0 0; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module combo-left" dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-16" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: left !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-right: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="143" alt="2cents2" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/3780/4363/original/2cents2.jpg?1681226341" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span class="module-16 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In the Gospel today we heard: <br> <em style="font-style: italic;">""I tell you, <br> unless your righteousness surpasses that <br> of the scribes and Pharisees, <br> you will not enter into the Kingdom of heaven. <br> "You have heard that it was said to your ancestors, <br> You shall not kill; and whoever kills will be liable to judgment. <br> But I say to you, whoever is angry with his brother <br> will be liable to judgment,..."</em> end of Gospel verse. <br> . . .</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-17 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-17 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">From Bishop Barron today: <br> "Friends, in today's Gospel, Jesus commands us to be reconciled with one another. I want to say something about the role of forgiveness in repairing our broken relationships. <br> When you are at worship and realize that you need to forgive someone (or be forgiven by someone), go and do it. Go get reconciled, then come back. It's like a rule of physics. There is something hidden in the deep mystery of God, and I can't fully explicate it. Somehow, if there is a lack of forgiveness in you, it blocks the movement of God in you. Perhaps it's simply because God is love, and so whatever is opposed to love in us blocks the flow of God's power and God's life. <br> One reason we do not forgive is that we feel that some injustice has been done to us, and we resent it. A good cure for this feeling is to kneel before the cross of Jesus. What do you see there? The innocent Son of God nailed to the cross—the ultimate injustice. What does he do? He forgives his persecutors. Meditate on that, and your sense of being treated unjustly will fade away." End Quote Bishop Barron.</p> <hr> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">There are so many times that a divided church member, a protestant, comes at the true church, the Catholic, with a statement to argue for purgatory. And then, they want you to point out in the bible, in their smaller bible, the one they took about 7 books out of to prove to them that purgatory exists. And if you point to today's Gospel, words directly from Jesus, they immediately get defensive about it, just like when you point to them the Gospels that speak about the Eucharist, in the Gospel of John.<br> <br> Regardless if they want to admit to the final judgement, it is true. There is a judgement, when we meet our Lord. All an atheist or protestant has to do is to listen to many new near death experiences and we hear of many meeting judgement day, and if they are luck or not so lucky, they will get rejected on earth and live to tell about it. A dead person speaks. <br> I cannot forget one of the stories I heard, about a man that met his judgement, and there was recalled the day he was in a fight punching the other guy with fury in the face. He said he felt every single punch in that other person, every pain, the breaking of the nose, everything he was doing, he was doing to himself. This brought so much remorse, an even greater pain. <br> Why do I mention this? Our Lord said that what we do to others, we do to ourselves, so really, we are hurting ourselves when we lash out at others, even with just words. <br> There are certain people that believe their words don't mean anything, but our Lord proves them wrong today. <br> "and whoever says to his brother, Raqa, <br> will be answerable to the Sanhedrin, <br> and whoever says, 'You fool,' will be liable to fiery Gehenna." <br> And what is Gehenna? It is to be casted out into the likes of hell. I don't know about you, but to me, just waiting is like hell. I'm impatient, I'm very limited on time. And can you imagine having to wait when you die? There is no time to tell! It is literally forever! Who wants to go through that? And we have been told by dead people, and prophets, and our Lord Himself, don't do that! Don't put yourself through that! Let us break away from sin! That's the point of lent! To break away from sin, to repent! To Believe! To unite ourselves tighter with our Lord! How? Let others be more. Let them hurt you and then pray for them because they are hurting themselves! I'm serious here. I've seen it myself. This is exactly the message of the cross. Mercy. Sacrificial love. God's message written with His blood.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Lord, help us appreciate You with all our heart, mind, body, and soul! 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The Chair of St. Peter is a symbol of the authority and primacy of the first Bishop of Rome, and, through communion with the Roman Pontiff and his successors, the unity of the Universal Church. 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It is a great gift, and the number of those who thank God for it is small." <br> –St. Alphonsus Liguori</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Today's Meditation</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"[The] ultimate end of man we call beatitude. For a man's happiness or beatitude consists in the vision whereby he sees God in His essence. Of course, man is far below God in the perfection of his beatitude. For God has this beatitude by His very nature, whereas man attains beatitude by being admitted to a share in the divine light." <br> —St. Thomas Aquinas, p. 119 <br> An Excerpt From <br> Aquinas's Shorter Summa</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Verse</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Peter [said] to them, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the holy Spirit. For the promise is made to you and to your children and to all those far off, whomever the Lord our God will call."" <br> –Acts 2:38-39</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-3 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-3"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Margaret of Cortona (1247-1297) was born in Tuscany, Italy, the only child of a working-class family. She lost her mother at age seven, and had a poor relationship with her stepmother. Margaret was spoiled, willful, reckless, and beautiful, and at the age of seventeen she left her father's house in the night and became the mistress of a young nobleman. She lived with him in his family castle for nine years and bore him a son, but he did not marry her due to her lower social class. One day he did not return home from a journey, and his hound came back to the castle alone. The dog led Margaret into the nearby wood where she discovered her lover brutally murdered. This shook her to her core. Her eyes were opened to the sinfulness of her way of life, and she became deeply repentant. She left his family castle with her son and sought out the Franciscan friars for spiritual direction. She then reformed her life through intense prayer, penance, and self-discipline, eventually joining the Third Order of St. Francis, and living in strict poverty and great charity towards the poor. St. Margaret of Cortona is the patron saint of the homeless, reformed prostitutes, midwives, single laywomen, the mentally ill, and the falsely accused. Her feast day is February 22nd.</p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-6 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-6"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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}/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-7" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="530" alt="a1" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4599/6547/original/a1.png?1708610890" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-8 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-8 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <h1 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000080; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter, Apostle</h1> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reading 1 1 Pt 5:1-4</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Beloved: <br> I exhort the presbyters among you, <br> as a fellow presbyter and witness to the sufferings of Christ <br> and one who has a share in the glory to be revealed. <br> Tend the flock of God in your midst, <br> overseeing not by constraint but willingly, <br> as God would have it, not for shameful profit but eagerly. <br> Do not lord it over those assigned to you, <br> but be examples to the flock. <br> And when the chief Shepherd is revealed, <br> you will receive the unfading crown of glory.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Responsorial Psalm PS 23:1-3a, 4, 5, 6</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. (1) The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.</strong> <br> The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. <br> In verdant pastures he gives me repose; <br> Beside restful waters he leads me; <br> he refreshes my soul. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.</strong> <br> Even though I walk in the dark valley <br> I fear no evil; for you are at my side <br> With your rod and your staff <br> that give me courage. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.</strong> <br> You spread the table before me <br> in the sight of my foes; <br> You anoint my head with oil; <br> my cup overflows. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.</strong> <br> Only goodness and kindness follow me <br> all the days of my life; <br> And I shall dwell in the house of the LORD <br> for years to come. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.</strong></p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Verse Before the Gospel Mt 16:18</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church; <br> the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Gospel Mt 16:13-19</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">When Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi <br> he asked his disciples, <br> "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?" <br> They replied, "Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, <br> still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets." <br> He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" <br> Simon Peter said in reply, <br> "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." <br> Jesus said to him in reply, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. <br> For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father. <br> And so I say to you, you are Peter, <br> and upon this rock I will build my Church, <br> and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. <br> I will give you the keys to the Kingdom of heaven. <br> Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; 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border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <a target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=139780.8695.1.c883c47db9cbd8e4c28a9b7328baefbe"> <img width="80" alt="wauorg" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/1150/7480/original/wauorg.jpg?1473769568" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-13 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-13 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Meditation: Matthew 16:13-19</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. (Matthew 16:18)</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Did you know that there is a physical chair of St. Peter located in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican? Tradition holds that it is the original wooden seat used by St. Peter whenever he preached or taught the Christians in Rome. The chair was later encased in bronze, and is an impressive work of art.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">But today's feast is not about a piece of furniture. It's about what it signifies. The Chair of St. Peter stands as "a symbol of the special mission of Peter and his successors to tend Christ's flock, keeping it united in faith and in charity" (Pope Benedict XVI, Angelus, February 19, 2012). It's a sign that Jesus has kept the promise he made to St. Peter, which we read in today's Gospel: "The gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against [the Church]" (Matthew 16:18).</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">It's no secret that, over the centuries, some of Peter's successors have been less than exemplary in their faithfulness to God. Yet God has always been faithful to his promise! He has continued the unceasing flow of graces to the world through the Church. In fact, in spite of many forces of darkness coming against it from within and from outside, the Church remains "united in faith and in charity."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">We can recount the ways in which the graces and blessings of the Church have touched our own lives: the youth group that led us to experience the joy of Christ, the Catholic school teacher who taught us the truths of the faith, or the chapel that became our place of encounter with the Lord. In these ways, and so many more, the Church has helped heaven come to earth in our lives!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">So trust that God is faithful to his promises! He will continue to keep the Church united, even as he deepens our communion. In the end, Jesus will be victorious over all the forces of darkness in this world—and in our hearts.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Lord, build your Church up in unity and charity so that it may continue to be a stream of life and grace to the world."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">1 Peter 5:1-4 <br> Psalm 23:1-6</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-14 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In the Gospel today we heard: <br> <em style="font-style: italic;">"And so I say to you, you are Peter, <br> and upon this rock I will build my Church, <br> and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. <br> I will give you the keys to the Kingdom of heaven. <br> Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; <br> and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."....."</em> end of Gospel verse. <br> . . .</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-18 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-18 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">From Bishop Barron today: <br> "Friends, today's Gospel spells out the importance of Peter's confession. For it is upon this inspired confession that the Church is built. Not, mind you, on popular opinion, which is shifting and indecisive, and not on personal holiness, which is all too rare. It is built upon the inspired authority of Peter—and I say, "Thank God!" <br> We make this troubling and extraordinary claim that it is through a special charism of the Spirit that Peter and his successors govern the Church. Now, I realize that I have many Protestant readers and that this text has been, between Catholics and Protestants, a stumbling block. Let me clarify what is and is not at stake here. <br> What is the focus of Peter's confession? It has to do with who Jesus is. This is the rock upon which the Church is built. Peter is right about who Jesus is: a man who is also the Son of the living God. And this is the source and ground of the whole operation." <br> End Quote Bishop Barron.</p> <hr> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">EWTN news email said: <br> "Today the Church celebrates the Chair of St. Peter.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">The "chair" to which this feast refers is the cathedra, or office, of the Apostle Peter. Given by Christ to St. Peter (Matthew 16:13-18), Peter's supreme pastoral office is passed to each of his successors as Bishop of Rome, that is, where Peter last served and where he died a martyr.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Throughout the 2,000-year history of the Church, there have been 266 popes, beginning with Peter. Among them are many saints and martyrs who have devoted themselves to the Gospel."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Why did our Lord choose Saint Peter as the "Rock" to found the Church on earth?<br> <br> Because it was a revelation from the Father and the Holy Spirit. Peter was the one who answered right when our Lord asked "But, who do YOU say that I Am?" <br> Peter answered with a confession of what He knew was a deep conviction and truth in his heart unlike all the rest: "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." <br> From this heartfelt answer, to the world, this is our calling; to call upon our Lord with a confession and say to Him: "LORD YOU ARE THE CHRIST! OUR SAVIOR! The very Son of the Living God!". <br> And we could write a few more thousand books on this revelation, like the immaculate conception. Why Savior? Why Son of the LIVING God?<br> <br> Because God is unfathomable. And so to us His beloved creatures, and so called "children", it means everything. He desired to Father us. And if He'd have enough, He'd stop having us. But apparently He loves us! And so, this revelation is HUGE.<br> <br> The chair of saint peter is to place this message to the world, yes through the succession of the Pope, but even more-so, the very message to be lived out by every Christ follower, to confess the God's Son is King of the Universe, and King of our Hearts. That's the purpose of the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven, which the Pope is entrusted with. And woe to those who have been entrusted with much....for very much is upon their soul. And we are one body in the Church of Christ the Lord, the first Church in the world that still lives and breathes today.<br> <br> Today it is increasingly persecuted, but, this is a sure sign that it is growing. Growing pains, and displacing evil spirits with the Holy Spirit of God that dwells in the heart of Jesus and desires to dwell in all of us today!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Lord, the chair of St. Peter, you have set for the world to have a church. It is then, a seat of order. We know there is order in Heaven now, because Thou hast said "Let it be done....on earth...as it is in Heaven." 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font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Peter Damian (1007-1072 A.D.) was born in Ravenna, Italy, the youngest of a large and noble yet poor family. After his birth his mother initially refused to nurse him due to the strain he would put on the family, and he nearly died. He was later orphaned and suffered from extreme poverty. One brother adopted him, but neglected him and treated him like a slave. Another brother, a priest, recognizing that Peter had great intelligence, took him in and provided for his education. Peter excelled in his studies and in religious piety. By the time he was twenty-five he became a professor famous for his work in theology and canon law. Bothered by the distractions of university life, at twenty-eight he left his position to become a Benedictine monk and to lead a quiet life of fervent prayer and self-mortification. He lived during a time of great corruption in the Church, and became heavily involved in the controversies and crises of the day, advocating for reform and greater discipline in religious life. He was an influential figure, a friend and adviser to both popes and emperors, and was made a bishop and cardinal. Due to his academic prowess and prolific theological writings, St. Peter Damian was declared a Doctor of the Church in 1823. His feast day is February 21.</p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-5 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-5"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; height: auto !important;"> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-6 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="center" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td,table.module-6{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table a{border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:100%!important;border:0 none;text-decoration:none}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> table.image-6-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-6" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="530" alt="a1" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4597/5046/original/a1.png?1708529735" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-7 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-7 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Wednesday of the First Week in Lent</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reading 1 Jon 3:1-10</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">The word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time: <br> "Set out for the great city of Nineveh, <br> and announce to it the message that I will tell you." <br> So Jonah made ready and went to Nineveh, <br> according to the LORD's bidding. <br> Now Nineveh was an enormously large city; <br> it took three days to go through it. <br> Jonah began his journey through the city, <br> and had gone but a single day's walk announcing, <br> "Forty days more and Nineveh shall be destroyed," <br> when the people of Nineveh believed God; <br> they proclaimed a fast <br> and all of them, great and small, put on sackcloth.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">When the news reached the king of Nineveh, <br> he rose from his throne, laid aside his robe, <br> covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in the ashes. <br> Then he had this proclaimed throughout Nineveh, <br> by decree of the king and his nobles: <br> "Neither man nor beast, neither cattle nor sheep, <br> shall taste anything; <br> they shall not eat, nor shall they drink water. <br> Man and beast shall be covered with sackcloth and call loudly to God; <br> every man shall turn from his evil way <br> and from the violence he has in hand. <br> Who knows, God may relent and forgive, and withhold his blazing wrath, <br> so that we shall not perish." <br> When God saw by their actions how they turned from their evil way, <br> he repented of the evil that he had threatened to do to them; <br> he did not carry it out.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Responsorial Psalm PS 51:3-4, 12-13, 18-19</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. (19b) A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.</strong> <br> Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness; <br> in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense. <br> Thoroughly wash me from my guilt <br> and of my sin cleanse me. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.</strong> <br> A clean heart create for me, O God, <br> and a steadfast spirit renew within me. <br> Cast me not out from your presence, <br> and your Holy Spirit take not from me. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.</strong> <br> For you are not pleased with sacrifices; <br> should I offer a burnt offering, you would not accept it. <br> My sacrifice, O God, is a contrite spirit; <br> a heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.</strong></p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Verse Before the Gospel Jl 2:12-13 Jl 2:12-13</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Even now, says the LORD, <br> return to me with your whole heart <br> for I am gracious and merciful.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Gospel Lk 11:29-32</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">While still more people gathered in the crowd, Jesus said to them, <br> "This generation is an evil generation; <br> it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, <br> except the sign of Jonah. <br> Just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, <br> so will the Son of Man be to this generation. <br> At the judgment <br> the queen of the south will rise with the men of this generation <br> and she will condemn them, <br> because she came from the ends of the earth <br> to hear the wisdom of Solomon, <br> and there is something greater than Solomon here. <br> At the judgment the men of Nineveh will arise with this generation <br> and condemn it, <br> because at the preaching of Jonah they repented, <br> and there is something greater than Jonah here."</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-8 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=139623.8682.1.c3a02345e7326d11112957fd0ab325a4"> <img width="80" alt="wauorg" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/1150/7480/original/wauorg.jpg?1473769568" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-12 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-12 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Meditation: Jonah 3:1-10</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><em style="font-style: italic;">The people of Nineveh believed God. (Jonah 3:5)</em></p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Something of a communal gut check happens when a major event like a natural disaster or a terrorist attack suddenly brings life into focus. Everyone affected takes stock of their lives, examines their behavior, and asks where God can be found in the midst of such a tragedy. But what about when a prophet preaches a message of impending doom? How do you think the residents of the same city might react? Do you think it would make a difference at all? Especially if the city were known for its wicked, sinful ways?</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">This is essentially the story told in the Book of Jonah. It wasn't an earthquake or a military invasion that prompted the people of Nineveh to repent. It was the words of a lone foreigner who appeared on the city's shores smelling like the fish that had swallowed him! That's how powerful a prophetic message can be!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Lent is our time to emulate the people of Nineveh. It's our opportunity to "believe God" (see Jonah 3:5) and embrace the call to deeper repentance and faith. On a concrete level, this means actively listening for the prophetic voices in our own surroundings. And like the people of Nineveh, we might hear God speaking to us through unexpected people or in unlikely places. It doesn't have to be in a church, and it doesn't have to come from our parish priest. God can use anyone or anything to get through to us: a television show, a chance encounter, a bumper sticker. Even someone you'd least expect can bring you God's message.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">But remember: just because Lent is a penitential season, it doesn't mean that God only wants to speak to you about sin! He sent Jonah to the Ninevites out of abundant love, not out of a desire to punish. In fact, the more you keep your heart open to the Lord, the more you'll be able to detect the love and compassion in any message God sends you. You won't need the "gut check" of a tragedy to draw you back to him—because you'll already be close to his heart!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Lord, open my ears, my eyes, and my heart! Help me to hear your prophetic word, believe in you, and love you even more."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Psalm 51:3-4, 12-13, 18-19 <br> Luke 11:29-32</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-13 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="center" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td,table.module-13{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table a{border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:100%!important;border:0 none;text-decoration:none}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> table.image-13-1{ width: 100.0% !important; 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}div.module-16 table.list-item td.bullet-text, div.module-16 table.last-list-item td.bullet-text{ width: 350px !important; }table.image-16-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }table.module-16, table.module-16 td.image-1{ width: 163px; padding: 0 20px 0 0; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module combo-left" dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-16" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: left !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-right: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="143" alt="2cents2" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/3780/4363/original/2cents2.jpg?1681226341" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span class="module-16 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In the Gospel today we heard: <br> <em style="font-style: italic;">"While still more people gathered in the crowd, Jesus said to them, <br> "This generation is an evil generation; <br> it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, <br> except the sign of Jonah. <br> Just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, <br> so will the Son of Man be to this generation....."</em> end of Gospel verse. <br> . . .</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-17 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-17 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">From Bishop Barron today: <br> "Friends, in today's Gospel, Jesus tells the crowd that the only sign he will give is the sign of Jonah—the victory of his death and Resurrection. <br> If Jesus had died and simply remained in his grave, he would be remembered (if he was remembered at all) as a noble idealist, tragically crushed by the forces of history. There could have been, in the first century, no surer sign that someone was not the Messiah than his death at the hands of the enemies of Israel, for one of the central marks of messiahship was precisely victory over those enemies. <br> That Peter, James, John, Paul, and the rest could announce throughout the Mediterranean world that Jesus was in fact the long-awaited Israelite Messiah, and that they could go to their deaths defending this claim, are the surest indications that something monumentally significant happened to Jesus after his death. <br> That something was the Resurrection. Though too many modern theologians have tried to explain the Resurrection away as a wish-fulfilling fantasy, a vague symbol, or a literary invention, the New Testament writers could not be clearer: the crucified Jesus, who had died and been buried, appeared alive again to his disciples." <br> End Quote Bishop Barron.</p> <hr> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"What happened to Jonah'? He was swallowed up by a big fish in the sea in the middle of a storm? Why? Because the people on the boat realized it was his god that was furious. Why? Because Jonah had decided not to do God's will. Why? Because he didn't think it was right. "What was God asking"? He was asking Jonah to preach repentance to a very bad people. Jonah felt they deserved what was coming to them...condemnation.<br> <br> Don't we do that sometimes? We rather not tell someone or a group something so they "realize for themselves" how messed up their doing and to "get what they deserve"? <br> This is perhaps one of the greatest injustices. At our conference a hermit said that we do this out of pride. So that we look good and preserve a false peace. But in the end it hurts the other...and after that it hurts us as well. Remember what our Lord said? "You Did It To Me". And in Matthew we hear our Lord say: "And the King will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me. ' The King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me." <br> And so here we are in Lent, and our Lord is asking for repentance. From who? From everyone.<br> <br> Do you repent your sin? <br> Do you feel sorry or remorse for your sin?<br> <br> What about for the sins of others? <br> You see, in the world, this isn't talked about much. It is mostly swept under a rug. The world wants you to shut up about your morals. And then, they want to declare what morals are. And they never work out. It usually winds up living a life of gloom or communism. But that is not why God sent His Heart to the world through Jesus our Lord and our Christ Savior. <br> Our Lord came with a message. And His word shall be fulfilled, with or without you. <br> He wants the world to repent. Why? Because...He loves it. Many don't love the world or the life they live in, and we can easily tell why we can't. But Jesus loves what He created. He created You. From the beginning of time Father God knew you would come into the world at this moment. To proclaim His message in your unique world, in your unique way, and why? The challenge is love, and not just any love, but sacrificial love. Love of God, and thus....love of neighbor.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Lord, help us love Thee as we ought!</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-18 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-18"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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And the reality that he's bestowed them on us should embolden us to develop them and serve him and others through them." <br> –Carrie Gress and Noelle Mering, p.123</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Verse</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"But you are "a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may announce the praises" of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light."<br> <br> –1 Peter 2:9</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-2 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Francisco (1908-1919) and St. Jacinta Marto (1910–1920) were siblings and the youngest of the three shepherd children, who, along with their cousin, Lúcia Santos, witnessed three apparitions of an angel in 1916 and six apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1917 while tending sheep in the countryside of Fatima, Portugal. They were entrusted by Our Lady of Fatima with many messages and warnings for the world, and that they were to do penance and pray for the conversion of sinners. Both became prayerful mystics, much wiser than their age, on account of these visits. Although only young children, they faithfully offered up many sacrifices as Our Lady requested, by praying the rosary daily, giving their lunches to the poor, denying themselves water on hot days, wearing a rough rope next to her skin, calmly facing ridicule on account of the apparitions, and bravely enduring the suffering that ended in their deaths. The Blessed Mother told Francisco and Jacinta that they would die young and that she would soon come to take them to heaven. Francisco and Jacinta both fell sick from influenza in 1918. Francisco died first, and Jacinta the next year after a long illness and two hospitalizations. They were canonized by Pope Francis on May 13, 2017, the 100th anniversary of the first Apparition of Our Lady of Fátima. Their feast day is February 20th.</p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-5 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-5"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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}/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-6" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="530" alt="a1" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4595/0631/original/a1.png?1708438004" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-7 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-7 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Tuesday of the First Week of Lent</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reading 1 Is 55:10-11</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Thus says the LORD: <br> Just as from the heavens <br> the rain and snow come down <br> And do not return there <br> till they have watered the earth, <br> making it fertile and fruitful, <br> Giving seed to the one who sows <br> and bread to the one who eats, <br> So shall my word be <br> that goes forth from my mouth; <br> It shall not return to me void, <br> but shall do my will, <br> achieving the end for which I sent it.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Responsorial Psalm PS 34:4-5, 6-7, 16-17, 18-19</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. (18b) From all their distress God rescues the just.</strong> <br> Glorify the LORD with me, <br> let us together extol his name. <br> I sought the LORD, and he answered me <br> and delivered me from all my fears. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. From all their distress God rescues the just.</strong> <br> Look to him that you may be radiant with joy, <br> and your faces may not blush with shame. <br> When the poor one called out, the LORD heard, <br> and from all his distress he saved him. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. From all their distress God rescues the just.</strong> <br> The LORD has eyes for the just, <br> and ears for their cry. <br> The LORD confronts the evildoers, <br> to destroy remembrance of them from the earth. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. From all their distress God rescues the just.</strong> <br> When the just cry out, the LORD hears them, <br> and from all their distress he rescues them. <br> The LORD is close to the brokenhearted; <br> and those who are crushed in spirit he saves. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. From all their distress God rescues the just.</strong> <br> Verse Before the Gospel Mt 4:4b <br> One does not live on bread alone, <br> but on every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Gospel Mt 6:7-15</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus said to his disciples: <br> "In praying, do not babble like the pagans, <br> who think that they will be heard because of their many words. <br> Do not be like them. <br> Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"This is how you are to pray:</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Our Father who art in heaven, <br> hallowed be thy name, <br> thy Kingdom come, <br> thy will be done, <br> on earth as it is in heaven. <br> Give us this day our daily bread; <br> and forgive us our trespasses, <br> as we forgive those who trespass against us; <br> and lead us not into temptation, <br> but deliver us from evil.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"If you forgive men their transgressions, <br> your heavenly Father will forgive you. <br> But if you do not forgive men, <br> neither will your Father forgive your transgressions."</p> <hr> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-8 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; text-align: left; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="center" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table,table.module-8{width:35.47%;float:left;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table a{border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:100%!important;border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 20px 20px 0}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> div.module-8 table.list-item td.numeric-text, div.module-8 table.last-list-item td.numeric-text{ width: 305px !important; 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color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=139297.8669.1.3203296696bdf7b3fcce97c776311c06"> <img width="80" alt="wauorg" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/1150/7480/original/wauorg.jpg?1473769568" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-12 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-12 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Meditation: Isaiah 55:10-11</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><em style="font-style: italic;">Giving seed to the one who sows . . . (Isaiah 55:10)</em></p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">John didn't grow up in a religious household. But he was drawn to the Catholic faith during his college years and began attending Mass. He went through RCIA and married a committed Catholic woman, and together they raised four children. The whole family was faithful to attending Mass; not even snowstorms kept them away!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">A successful businessman, John was able to retire young. He then started his own business as a handyman. Even today, he still charges his clients far less than the going rate because he views his work as a mission to help people, many of whom haven't been as fortunate. "God has blessed me," he likes to say, "and I think it's right that I share those blessings."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Where did that generosity come from? Quite possibly from something that happened every Sunday as John sat in church: God was sending out his word, as today's first reading says, and watering his faith. The words he heard in the readings each week settled deep in his heart and made him more and more "fertile and fruitful" in imitating Christ's love (Isaiah 55:10).</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Every Sunday, God is sowing the seed of his word into the hearts of countless men and women like John. We may not always see it, but God's words are bearing fruit. One may look like a single wildflower, but imagine the beauty God sees as he looks at all the people whose faithfulness only he knows! So it is with the good works that spring from each of us as we hear God's word. Those actions might not seem like much to us, but God takes a different view.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">If you are reading this, know that God is planting the seed of his word in you. He promises that this seed "shall not return to me void" (Isaiah 55:11). It will bear fruit. Even if you can't see it right now, you can trust that it will happen. It may need some time. It may need a little extra watering as well. But the seed is there, waiting for just the right time and just the right conditions. Just keep listening to the Lord and trying to respond to what you hear!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Father, help me to trust in the power of your word to change the world, one believer at a time."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Psalm 34:4-7, 16-19 <br> Matthew 6:7-15</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-13 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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}div.module-16 table.list-item td.bullet-text, div.module-16 table.last-list-item td.bullet-text{ width: 350px !important; }table.image-16-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }table.module-16, table.module-16 td.image-1{ width: 163px; padding: 0 20px 0 0; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module combo-left" dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-16" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: left !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-right: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="143" alt="2cents2" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/3780/4363/original/2cents2.jpg?1681226341" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span class="module-16 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In the Gospel today we heard: <br> <em style="font-style: italic;">"Do not be like them. <br> Your Father knows what you need before you ask him. <br> "This is how you are to pray: <br> Our Father who art in heaven, <br> hallowed be thy name, <br> thy Kingdom come, <br> thy will be done,...."</em> end of Gospel verse. <br> . . .</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-17 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-17 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">From Bishop Barron today: <br> "Friends, today's Gospel is Matthew's version of the Lord's Prayer. I want to reflect on the first verses. How wonderful that, in Luke's version, it comes directly from the prayer of Jesus himself. It is as though the prayer that he teaches them sums up the content of his own prayer. <br> We call God "Father" when we pray. We call him Abba, Daddy. The same intimacy that Jesus has with his Abba he invites us to share. We don't just imitate his prayer, the way we would imitate the prayer of any spiritual teacher; rather, we enter into the dynamics of his own being when we pray. <br> "Hallowed be thy name." May your name be held holy. The first thing we ask is that we might honor him, that we might make him first in our lives, that he might be set apart from everything else. Job, family, money, success, the esteem of others, our friends—all of it is good, but none of it is to be held holy in this sense. <br> If we get this wrong, we get everything else wrong. If we don't hold his name holy above all, everything becomes profane. " <br> End Quote Bishop Barron.</p> <hr> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">One day, everyone who knows me will know of my experience with our Lord; the out of body experience in which I saw Him on the cross, and the biggest takeaway was to realize something deep inside, my being realized without a doubt of who was on the cross, and it was the most strangest experience, and it was a "knowing" that Him on the cross was My Father, and Our Father dying for us all. <br> And what is even stranger is having to give witness, because when you hear someone's story, it sometimes doesn't move you as much as it moved the person that it happened to. It's like when our Lord said that even if a dead man comes back to life and tells the world, not everyone would believe.<br> <br> But so it is. You can read the entire bible, but in the end, it is really up to you to believe it or not. <br> And this is why I persist in reaching out to the world, as if to plead unceasingly, something burns inside that makes the message pour forth even if I don't want it.<br> <br> A couple days ago, my nephew came to drop off a cooler he had borrowed for his son's first year birthday on the weekend. I had two of my little sons with me, and one interrupted asking my nephew "when are you going to have him baptized". <br> It was an awkward question, firstly because they are not catholic anymore, even though I am my nephew's godfather when he was baptized as an infant. Secondly, because that is the burning and yearning prayer I've been praying for my non-baptized family members, even praying daily with my wife and kids rosaries asking for our loved ones to come to the Lord and be baptized.<br> <br> Well, the beans were spilled. And I told my nephew the truth, that his baptism has made his life different than those who are not baptized, and that we shouldn't let others wait until they "feel like it" to get baptized, because we are blessing souls with the Holy Spirit, integrating into the body of Christ. And this is good, and this is what the first apostles did in the first church.<br> <br> And so, today we recall the Lord's prayer. <br> Our Father...Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be done!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Lord, let Thy will be done according to Thy word, in my soul, and all souls we are connecting to daily and forever.</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-18 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; 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He orders an operation which involves cutting away part of our body and we accept it. We are grateful to him and pay him a large fee because we judge he would not act as he does unless the remedy were necessary, and we must rely on his skill. Yet we are unwilling to treat God in the same way! It looks as if we do not trust His wisdom and are afraid He cannot do His job properly. We allow ourselves to be operated on by a man who may easily make a mistake—a mistake which may cost us our life—and protest when God sets to work on us. If we could see all He sees we would unhesitatingly wish all He wishes." <br> —Fr. 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Alvarez of (Córdoba) Cordova (1350-1430) was born to a noble family in Zamora, Spain. He joined the Dominican Order and preached throughout Spain, and served at the court of Queen Catherine. He went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and upon his return preached the crusades against the Muslims. He founded the famous priory of Scala Caeli (Ladder of Heaven) at Cordova, a convent of strict observance, and it is said that angels helped provide its building materials. He erected pictures of the holy places in Jerusalem in its gardens, popularizing the custom of the Stations of the Cross. He lived a life of great austerity and begged for alms even though he could easily obtain what he needed from the royal court. Numerous miracles are attributed to him. It is told that he once found a dying beggar, wrapped him in a blanket, and carried him back to the convent. Upon unwrapping the cloth he found only a crucifix. Blessed Alvarez was dedicated to Christ's Passion and helped spread devotion to the Way of the Cross throughout western Europe. He also successfully led a resistance against the anti-pope and brought Spain under allegiance to the true pope in Rome. His feast day is February 19.</p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-5 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-5"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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}/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-6" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="530" alt="a1" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4592/8147/original/a1.png?1708359530" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-7 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-7 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <h1 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000080; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Monday of the First Week of Lent </h1> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">The LORD said to Moses, <br> "Speak to the whole assembly of the children of Israel and tell them: <br> Be holy, for I, the LORD, your God, am holy.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"You shall not steal. <br> You shall not lie or speak falsely to one another. <br> You shall not swear falsely by my name, <br> thus profaning the name of your God. <br> I am the LORD.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"You shall not defraud or rob your neighbor. <br> You shall not withhold overnight the wages of your day laborer. <br> You shall not curse the deaf, <br> or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, <br> but you shall fear your God. <br> I am the LORD.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"You shall not act dishonestly in rendering judgment. <br> Show neither partiality to the weak nor deference to the mighty, <br> but judge your fellow men justly. <br> You shall not go about spreading slander among your kin; <br> nor shall you stand by idly when your neighbor's life is at stake. <br> I am the LORD.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"You shall not bear hatred for your brother in your heart. <br> Though you may have to reprove him, <br> do not incur sin because of him. <br> Take no revenge and cherish no grudge against your fellow countrymen. <br> You shall love your neighbor as yourself. <br> I am the LORD."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Responsorial Psalm</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">19:8, 9, 10, 15</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. (John 6:63b) Your words, Lord, are Spirit and life.</strong> <br> The law of the LORD is perfect, <br> refreshing the soul. <br> The decree of the LORD is trustworthy, <br> giving wisdom to the simple. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Your words, Lord, are Spirit and life.</strong> <br> The precepts of the LORD are right, <br> rejoicing the heart. <br> The command of the LORD is clear, <br> enlightening the eye. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Your words, Lord, are Spirit and life.</strong> <br> The fear of the LORD is pure, <br> enduring forever; <br> The ordinances of the LORD are true, <br> all of them just. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Your words, Lord, are Spirit and life.</strong> <br> Let the words of my mouth and the thought of my heart <br> find favor before you, <br> O LORD, my rock and my redeemer. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Your words, Lord, are Spirit and life.</strong></p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Verse Before the Gospel</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">2 Cor 6:2b</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Behold, now is a very acceptable time; <br> behold, now is the day of salvation.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Gospel</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Mt 25:31-46</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus said to his disciples: <br> "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, <br> and all the angels with him, <br> he will sit upon his glorious throne, <br> and all the nations will be assembled before him. <br> And he will separate them one from another, <br> as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. <br> He will place the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. <br> Then the king will say to those on his right, <br> 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father. <br> Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. <br> For I was hungry and you gave me food, <br> I was thirsty and you gave me drink, <br> a stranger and you welcomed me, <br> naked and you clothed me, <br> ill and you cared for me, <br> in prison and you visited me.' <br> Then the righteous will answer him and say, <br> 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, <br> or thirsty and give you drink? <br> When did we see you a stranger and welcome you, <br> or naked and clothe you? <br> When did we see you ill or in prison, and visit you?' <br> And the king will say to them in reply, <br> 'Amen, I say to you, whatever you did <br> for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.' <br> Then he will say to those on his left, <br> 'Depart from me, you accursed, <br> into the eternal fire prepared for the Devil and his angels. <br> For I was hungry and you gave me no food, <br> I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, <br> a stranger and you gave me no welcome, <br> naked and you gave me no clothing, <br> ill and in prison, and you did not care for me.' <br> Then they will answer and say, <br> 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty <br> or a stranger or naked or ill or in prison, <br> and not minister to your needs?' <br> He will answer them, 'Amen, I say to you, <br> what you did not do for one of these least ones, <br> you did not do for me.' <br> And these will go off to eternal punishment, <br> but the righteous to eternal life."</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-8 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=139111.8656.1.cea84851fb8324e7bb5ac5d3085ed25e"> <img width="80" alt="wauorg" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/1150/7480/original/wauorg.jpg?1473769568" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-12 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-12 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Meditation: Leviticus 19:1-2, 11-18</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><em style="font-style: italic;">Be holy, for I, the Lord, your God, am holy. (Leviticus 19:2)</em></p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">When we hear this commandment, two questions come to mind: What does it mean to be holy? And how are we supposed to get there?</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">The Hebrew word for "holy" is kodesh, which means to be "set apart." When God describes himself as holy, he is saying that he is different, or set apart from, any creature or created thing. He is transcendent, and in his perfect purity, he lacks nothing. God's holiness isn't an action he does; it is simply who he is. And incredibly, it is his deepest desire to share this holiness with us.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">So for us to "be holy" (Leviticus 19:2), we have to set ourselves apart and make time for the One who is all holy. That's how we open ourselves up to God's work of transformation in us. Before becoming Pope Benedict XVI, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger pointed out that "being holy does not mean being superior to others; the saint can be very weak, with many mistakes in his life." Instead, it has far more to do with maintaining a steady rhythm of "profound contact with God, being a friend of God" (October 6, 2002, L'Osservatore Romano).</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Just as God's holiness is a matter of who he is and not what he does, the same is true for us. Through our time spent with the Lord, he makes us into a new creation. This transformation isn't the result of our own moral fortitude or strength of will; it can only come about through a deep and abiding friendship with God. He is the only One who can truly heal our hearts and fill us with his own goodness and mercy.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">As with all relationships, growing as a friend of God takes humility and time. It requires commitment on our part—we need to set ourselves apart from the world each day to be with him. It also means accepting that we will make mistakes along the way.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">But thankfully, we do not just pursue friendship with God; he is pursuing friendship with us. Because of his great love, his deepest desire is to be with us. In that communion of love, he can do what we could never do on our own: he can make us holy as he is holy.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"God, give me the grace to look more like you every day."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Psalm 19:8-10, 15 <br> Matthew 25:31-46</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-13 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In the Gospel today we heard: <br> <em style="font-style: italic;">"When did we see you ill or in prison, and visit you?' <br> And the king will say to them in reply, <br> 'Amen, I say to you, whatever you did <br> for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me...."</em> end of Gospel verse. <br> . . .</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-17 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-17 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Why did Mother Teresa want to serve the poorest of the poor? Because she took the words of our Lord to heart, "You Did It For Me". <br> So how can this affect us all today? Back to what I like to say...every thing and every person matters. Your thoughts matter, says our Lord. Your words really matter! They can make or break somebody! Every thing matters! The way you look at someone even! Right? And that's tough for me because I don't look to friendly! LOL. Anyhow, we need to see everyone with God's loving eyes, and with a correction oriented heart. First with self, then with others. I often think of the words of Dr. Phil a tv psychologist host that once said a quote I cant' forget "I don't like in you what I see in me". <br> So who are the poorest of the poor around you? We don't live in a 3rd world country here, where the poor are lying on the streets like in Calcutta in India. It is rare to find someone on the streets. For me they are like hidden gems. I used to look for them and hang out with them if I ever found them. What are the poor like? What did I learn? <br> The poor are people. They come in all shapes and sizes and backgrounds. Some are mentally challenged. Some are burned out on drugs. Some are physically challenged. Some actually have money! Some don't care if I give them anything. But all I've come to find out is this one thing...they love Love. Even if they don't show it.<br> <br> Me and my wife and our kids visit weekly the nursing home. There are poor people there. Lonely, and sick. When we show up, their faces turn from frowns to smiles. And mind you, I don't feel like the happiest person when I'm dragging myself and family there. But something special happens when we gather and pray. Life begins to bloom, and together we offer a beautiful flower to God our Father. <br> You did it for me? <br> You did it FOR ME?? <br> Our Lord doesn't need our material goods, therefore, we should become poor in that sense, which means, taking no pleasure in earthly things. Instead, let us take pleasure in pleasing the Lord! Do what He says! He absolutely loves the giver...because it reminds Him of Himself! And it feels so good that it energizes the heavens! <br> Lent then becomes a beautiful time for our Lord. <br> We stop caving in and giving to ourselves, and start giving to the world and to Our God Himself!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Before we go...I want to thank you for your prayers. Our conference was filled with men and the Holy Spirit. What an amazing gift!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Lord help us utilize this gift of Love for greater Glory of God!</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-18 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-18"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table div table,table.module-4{width:65.47%;float:right;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table div table a{border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:100%!important;border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 0 20px 20px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> div.module-4 table.list-item td.numeric-text, div.module-4 table.last-list-item td.numeric-text{ width: 146px !important; }div.module-4 table.list-item td.bullet-text, div.module-4 table.last-list-item td.bullet-text{ width: 166px !important; }table.image-4-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }table.module-4, table.module-4 td.image-1{ width: 347px; padding: 0 0 0 20px; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module combo-right" dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-4" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: right !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="327" alt="asaint" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4586/2349/original/asaint.png?1708097059" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-4 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Juliana</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Juliana of Nicomedia (c. 270 A.D.), also known as St. Juliana of Cumae, was the daughter of noble pagan parents, born in Nicomedia, a Greek city in ancient Turkey. Although her father was hostile to Christians, Juliana secretly accepted baptism. Her father arranged her marriage to a pagan nobleman and Roman senator. When the time for her wedding came, Juliana refused her consent to be married unless her betrothed converted to the Christian faith. Her father retaliated by mercilessly abusing her, but Juliana would not give in. Her betrothed then denounced her as a Christian before the tribunal under the persecutions of the Roman Emperor Diocletian. St. Juliana was unwavering in her faith, even after the devil himself appeared to tempt her during her sufferings. She was then publicly tortured by being burned, boiled in oil, and finally beheaded. Some accounts say she died together with St. Barbara. Many were converted to the Christian faith upon witnessing her fortitude in the face of her tortures. St. Juliana is the patron saint of sickness and bodily ills. Her feast day is February 16th.</p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-5 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-5"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; height: auto !important;"> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-6 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="center" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td,table.module-6{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table a{border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:100%!important;border:0 none;text-decoration:none}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> table.image-6-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-6" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="530" alt="a1" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4586/2385/original/a1.png?1708097211" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-7 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-7 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reading 1 Is 58:1-9a</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Thus says the Lord GOD: <br> Cry out full-throated and unsparingly, <br> lift up your voice like a trumpet blast; <br> Tell my people their wickedness, <br> and the house of Jacob their sins. <br> They seek me day after day, <br> and desire to know my ways, <br> Like a nation that has done what is just <br> and not abandoned the law of their God; <br> They ask me to declare what is due them, <br> pleased to gain access to God. <br> "Why do we fast, and you do not see it? <br> afflict ourselves, and you take no note of it?"</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Lo, on your fast day you carry out your own pursuits, <br> and drive all your laborers. <br> Yes, your fast ends in quarreling and fighting, <br> striking with wicked claw. <br> Would that today you might fast <br> so as to make your voice heard on high! <br> Is this the manner of fasting I wish, <br> of keeping a day of penance: <br> That a man bow his head like a reed <br> and lie in sackcloth and ashes? <br> Do you call this a fast, <br> a day acceptable to the LORD? <br> This, rather, is the fasting that I wish: <br> releasing those bound unjustly, <br> untying the thongs of the yoke; <br> Setting free the oppressed, <br> breaking every yoke; <br> Sharing your bread with the hungry, <br> sheltering the oppressed and the homeless; <br> Clothing the naked when you see them, <br> and not turning your back on your own. <br> Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, <br> and your wound shall quickly be healed; <br> Your vindication shall go before you, <br> and the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard. <br> Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer, <br> you shall cry for help, and he will say: Here I am!</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Responsorial Psalm PS 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 18-19</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. (19b) A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.</strong> <br> Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness; <br> in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense. <br> Thoroughly wash me from my guilt <br> and of my sin cleanse me. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.</strong> <br> For I acknowledge my offense, <br> and my sin is before me always: <br> "Against you only have I sinned, <br> and done what is evil in your sight." <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.</strong> <br> For you are not pleased with sacrifices; <br> should I offer a burnt offering, you would not accept it. <br> My sacrifice, O God, is a contrite spirit; <br> a heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not spurn.</strong></p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Verse Before the Gospel See Am 5:14</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Seek good and not evil so that you may live, <br> and the Lord will be with you.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Gospel Mt 9:14-15</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">The disciples of John approached Jesus and said, <br> "Why do we and the Pharisees fast much, <br> but your disciples do not fast?" <br> Jesus answered them, "Can the wedding guests mourn <br> as long as the bridegroom is with them? <br> The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, <br> and then they will fast."</p> <hr> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-8 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table.module-11{width:15.09%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:15.09%;float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table a{border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:100%!important;border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> table.image-11-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-11" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <a target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=138872.8643.1.192727817efd8700cecd2b8444b7f066"> <img width="80" alt="wauorg" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/1150/7480/original/wauorg.jpg?1473769568" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-12 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-12 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Meditation: Isaiah 58:1-9</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><em style="font-style: italic;">Why do we fast, and you do not see it? (Isaiah 58:3)</em></p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">The people of Jerusalem were fasting, and they wanted God to take notice! And he did, but not in the way they had expected. Instead of being pleased with their self-denial, he spoke through the prophet Isaiah to warn them of their hypocrisy. By itself, fasting was of little value if they continued to disobey the Lord and ignore the needs of their neighbors.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">We often associate the season of Lent with fasting, but the Church usually talks about this ancient spiritual practice alongside two others: prayer and almsgiving. Fasting by itself won't necessarily help us to follow the Lord or grow closer to him. But when we combine it with prayer and almsgiving, it can bear beautiful fruit in our lives.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">For example, the hunger pangs we feel when we've skipped a meal or the discomfort we experience when we forgo something is a reminder of how weak we are and how much we need to rely on the Lord. That can spur us to turn to God in that very moment and ask for his grace. It can also help us to realize how we often substitute created things to satisfy us when only the Lord can truly fulfill us.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Fasting also brings to mind all the people who have less than we do. We may be denying ourselves something that is easily accessible and within our reach. How many others in the world are "fasting" not because they choose to but because there isn't enough to go around? Fasting can raise our awareness of our brothers and sisters who are suffering and in need. That, in turn, can help us to become more generous in giving alms—whether that's by giving away our money, our possessions, or our time in service to them.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">If you've already decided what to fast from this Lent, think about the ways it might lead you to deepen your prayer and almsgiving. If you haven't, ask the Lord what kind of fast would help you do so. Above all, remember that whatever you do this Lent, it's all for one purpose: to help you respond to the love that God has already shown you. That's what the Jews in today's first reading had forgotten. May we never lose sight of it!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Jesus, help me to bear fruit for you this Lent."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Psalm 51:3-6, 18-19 <br> Matthew 9:14-15</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-13 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; 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}div.module-16 table.list-item td.bullet-text, div.module-16 table.last-list-item td.bullet-text{ width: 350px !important; }table.image-16-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }table.module-16, table.module-16 td.image-1{ width: 163px; padding: 0 20px 0 0; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module combo-left" dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-16" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: left !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-right: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="143" alt="2cents2" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/3780/4363/original/2cents2.jpg?1681226341" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span class="module-16 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In the Gospel today we heard: <br> <em style="font-style: italic;">"Why do we and the Pharisees fast much, <br> but your disciples do not fast?" <br> Jesus answered them, "Can the wedding guests mourn <br> as long as the bridegroom is with them? <br> The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, <br> and then they will fast."....."</em> end of Gospel verse. <br> . . .</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-17 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-17 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">From Bishop Barron: <br> "Why do we fast? Because we have a hunger for God, which is the deepest hunger. We're meant to get access to that hunger. We're meant to feel it so that it can direct us toward God. Every spiritual master recognizes the danger that if we allow the superficial hunger of our lives to dominate, we never reach the deepest hunger. <br> Thomas Merton once observed that our desires for food and drink are something like little children in their persistence and tendency to dominate. Unless and until they are disciplined, they will skew the functions of the soul according to their purposes. <br> And fasting is a way of disciplining the hunger for food and drink. It is a way of quieting those desires by not responding to them immediately, so that the deepest desires emerge. Unless you fast, you might never realize how hungry you are for God. . . . . ." end quote from Bishop Barron.</p> <hr> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Our Lord in response in the book of Isaiah: ""Why do we fast, and you do not see it? afflict ourselves, and you take no note of it?" <br> Lo, on your fast day you carry out your own pursuits, and drive all your laborers." and He continues: "This, rather, is the fasting that I wish: <br> releasing those bound unjustly, <br> untying the thongs of the yoke; <br> Setting free the oppressed, <br> breaking every yoke; <br> Sharing your bread with the hungry, <br> sheltering the oppressed and the homeless; <br> Clothing the naked when you see them, <br> and not turning your back on your own. <br> Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, <br> and your wound shall quickly be healed; <br> Your vindication shall go before you, <br> and the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard. <br> Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer, <br> you shall cry for help, and he will say: Here I am!"</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Basically He cries out for mercy. He desires us to be mercy by the end of our fast, that this may become the end for the means, that there is a truth revealed...and the truth is God's will. <br> What good is it to give up sweets if you will not be sweet! <br> What good is it to give up cigarettes or beer or any other vice or habit or habitual sin if you will not replace it with good? <br> It is the same with confessions, we must make every effort to be sincere, and contrite. Why render your garments, why tear them apart and not your heart? And so, our Lord tries to tear it for us....to let Him in...and what is our response? <br> Lord, let our fast bring us willingly to our knees. <br> Let our fast lead to a greater feast, a greater hunger for You my Lord. 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If I am in special need of light and prudence in order to discharge my burdensome duties, I draw nigh to my Savior and seek counsel and light from him." <br> –St. Thomas More</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Today's Meditation</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Winnow not in every wind, and do not start off in every direction (Sirach 5:11). 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border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: right !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="343" alt="asaint" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4583/8725/original/asaint.png?1708006473" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-4 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Claude de la Colombiere</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Claude de la Colombiere (1641-1682) was born to a noble family in France and became a Jesuit priest. He was known for his solid and serious sermons and his dedication to observing the rule of his order with exactness. He became the rector of a Jesuit house next to the Monastery of the Visitation where St. Margaret Mary Alacoque lived, who was given special revelations from Jesus of His Sacred Heart. Claude became St. Margaret Mary's spiritual director, and, like her, became a zealous promoter of devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. In 1676 he was sent to England to attend the wife of the future King James II, serving at court as preacher and confessor. When anti-Catholic persecutions broke out, Claude was falsely accused of being involved in a 'papist plot' and was thrown into prison. While there his health suffered due to mistreatment. He was preserved from execution and instead banished from England by royal decree. He returned to his native France, where his fragile health continued to deteriorate until he died a few years later. The day after his death, St. Margaret Mary received supernatural assurance that he needed no prayers, as he was already in heaven. His feast day is February 15.</p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-5 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-5"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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}/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-6" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="530" alt="a1" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4583/8735/original/a1.png?1708006518" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-7 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-7 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <h1 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #000080; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Thursday after Ash Wednesday</h1> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reading 1 Dt 30:15-20</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Moses said to the people: <br> "Today I have set before you <br> life and prosperity, death and doom. <br> If you obey the commandments of the LORD, your God, <br> which I enjoin on you today, <br> loving him, and walking in his ways, <br> and keeping his commandments, statutes and decrees, <br> you will live and grow numerous, <br> and the LORD, your God, <br> will bless you in the land you are entering to occupy. <br> If, however, you turn away your hearts and will not listen, <br> but are led astray and adore and serve other gods, <br> I tell you now that you will certainly perish; <br> you will not have a long life <br> on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to enter and occupy. <br> I call heaven and earth today to witness against you: <br> I have set before you life and death, <br> the blessing and the curse. <br> Choose life, then, <br> that you and your descendants may live, by loving the LORD, your God, <br> heeding his voice, and holding fast to him. <br> For that will mean life for you, <br> a long life for you to live on the land that the LORD swore <br> he would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob."</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Responsorial Psalm PS 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. (40:5a) Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.</strong> <br> Blessed the man who follows not <br> the counsel of the wicked <br> Nor walks in the way of sinners, <br> nor sits in the company of the insolent, <br> But delights in the law of the LORD <br> and meditates on his law day and night. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.</strong> <br> He is like a tree <br> planted near running water, <br> That yields its fruit in due season, <br> and whose leaves never fade. <br> Whatever he does, prospers. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.</strong> <br> Not so the wicked, not so; <br> they are like chaff which the wind drives away. <br> For the LORD watches over the way of the just, <br> but the way of the wicked vanishes. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.</strong></p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Verse Before the Gospel Mt 4:17</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Repent, says the Lord; <br> the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #483D8B; font-family: Optima, Segoe, 'Segoe UI', Candara, Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Gospel Lk 9:22-25</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus said to his disciples: <br> "The Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected <br> by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, <br> and be killed and on the third day be raised."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Then he said to all, <br> "If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself <br> and take up his cross daily and follow me. <br> For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, <br> but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. <br> What profit is there for one to gain the whole world <br> yet lose or forfeit himself?"</p> <hr> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-8 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; text-align: left; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="center" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table,table.module-8{width:35.47%;float:left;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table a{border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:100%!important;border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 20px 20px 0}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> div.module-8 table.list-item td.numeric-text, div.module-8 table.last-list-item td.numeric-text{ width: 305px !important; 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line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Meditation: Luke 9:22-25</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><em style="font-style: italic;">If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. (Luke 9:23)</em></p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Crucifixions in first-century Palestine under Roman occupation were all too common. So Jesus understood that no one would ever want to take up his cross—let alone on a daily basis. Yet he said that this is necessary if we are to follow him. Why?</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Consider the meaning of the words "deny himself" (Luke 9:23). Taking up our crosses requires denying our very human tendency to act out of our own self-interest. It means following Jesus' example by loving God and our neighbor before ourselves. That, in turn, often requires a concerted effort to die to ourselves and our selfish desires. But how do we do this? For as we know, willpower alone only gets us so far.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus knew that our own efforts would never be enough. That's why, before taking up his own cross, Jesus promised his disciples that he would send them the Holy Spirit (John 14:16-18). The Spirit would give them the courage and strength to deny themselves and take up their crosses—and he will do the same for us.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">So believe that whatever particular cross you face, the Holy Spirit will help you to carry it. He will give you the grace to die to all those things that are preventing you from truly following in Jesus' footsteps, like self-pity, anger, or selfishness. Or maybe he'll enable you to let go of some precious free time so that you can care for a person in need. You'll likely feel some resistance at the thought of denying yourself. But that's precisely why you need the Spirit's power and grace! You can trust that he will provide for you, one day—and even one moment—at a time.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus wants us to follow him, even when that means taking up our crosses. Today, picture your Lenten journey as forty days of walking along behind the Lord, following in his footsteps, and carrying whatever cross he has given you. Know that he doesn't just ask that you take up your cross. He gives you his Holy Spirit to make it possible.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Lord Jesus, thank you for your Holy Spirit, who gives me the power and grace to carry my cross today."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Deuteronomy 30:15-20 <br> Psalm 1:1-4, 6</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-13 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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}div.module-15 table.list-item td.bullet-text, div.module-15 table.last-list-item td.bullet-text{ width: 413px !important; }table.image-15-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }table.module-15, table.module-15 td.image-1{ width: 100px; padding: 0 0 0 20px; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module caption combo-right" dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-15" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: right !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <a target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=138690.8631.1.a8bc569e6d3118f0b6fbcc8eb8282369"> <img width="80" alt="going4thpodcast" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/3679/1452/original/going4thpodcast.png?1677084405" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </a> <p style="color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; font-style: italic; clear: both;" align="left">click to hear 2cents</p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-15 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reflections with Brother Adrian: <br> <a target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #597BB7;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=138690.8632.1.9f8c5a43b097f0b35c9e4e0046f7f394">Audio English </a></p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-16 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; 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}div.module-16 table.list-item td.bullet-text, div.module-16 table.last-list-item td.bullet-text{ width: 350px !important; }table.image-16-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }table.module-16, table.module-16 td.image-1{ width: 163px; padding: 0 20px 0 0; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module combo-left" dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-16" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: left !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-right: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="143" alt="2cents2" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/3780/4363/original/2cents2.jpg?1681226341" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span class="module-16 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In the Gospel today we heard: <br> <em style="font-style: italic;">""The Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected <br> by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, <br> and be killed and on the third day be raised." <br> Then he said to all, <br> "If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself <br> and take up his cross daily and follow me....."</em> end of Gospel verse. <br> . . .</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-17 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-17 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">From Bishop Barron: <br> "Friends, our Gospel today lays out Jesus' conditions for discipleship. For all of us sinners, to varying degrees, our own lives have become god. That is to say, we see the universe turning around our ego, our needs, our projects, our plans, and our likes and dislikes. True conversion—the metanoia that Jesus talks about—is so much more than moral reform, though it includes that. It has to do with a complete shift in consciousness, a whole new way of looking at one's life. <br> Jesus offered a teaching that must have been gut-wrenching to his first-century audience: "If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me." His listeners knew what the cross meant: a death in utter agony, nakedness, and humiliation. They didn't think of the cross automatically in religious terms, as we do. They knew it in all of its awful power. <br> Unless you crucify your ego, you cannot be my follower, Jesus says. This move—this terrible move—has to be the foundation of the spiritual life. . . . ." end quote from Bishop Barron.</p> <hr> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">There's something that you will have to know if you decide to follow our Lord Jesus the Christ, and this is that you will have to check your ego at the door.<br> <br> After being in various ministries for about 20 years, I've noticed the biggest failures for the whole is one's ego, that is to say, one's pride. If we can overcome this obstacle with grace and humility, then we are more availed to do God's Holy will. <br> This is to take up your cross. <br> This is to follow Him. <br> Our Lord was humiliated, yet He loved them. <br> He was scourged, whipped, spit on, yet He loves us. <br> Our sins still continue to humiliate Him and His name, yet, He is offering Himself to us. <br> At what point in lent will we give in to Him?<br> <br> I'm working on a men's conference as part of a team. I keep putting these words on flyers and sites: "It Starts now". <br> We shouldn't wait around saying "I'll get to it later".<br> <br> The cross is here, and the cross is now.<br> <br> Sure, you're probably suffering right now, but is it for yourself or for God?<br> <br> It starts now! <br> We can offer our whole lives to Him, and it all starts in the heart. <br> Our Lord continues: <br> "For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, <br> but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. <br> What profit is there for one to gain the whole world <br> yet lose or forfeit himself?" <br> Much of the mantra in the world is messages about "self care" and "self preservation" and sure, we are to take care of ourselves, but we are missing the point if all we care about is our bodies!<br> <br> But what about the soul that actually animates our bodies? And what about our God that has given us the soul for the body?<br> <br> Suddenly things get real deep. Suddenly, I'm finding myself in need of something greater. I pine, I yearn, I need God more than ever before. I need Him and I need to offer myself to Him...don't we all? We are all there in the will, but are we willing in spirit and body? We want to be in shape, but are we doing anything about it? We want to be holy, but are we doing anything about it? We want to do God's will, but are we really lifting a finger?</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #3A352A; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">I ask for prayer for our Men's conference this weekend, for us to be opened and filled with God's will.</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-18 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #FFFFFF;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-18"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #412C0A; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">†Quote of the Day</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Heaven is filled with converted sinners of all kinds, and there is room for more." <br> –St. Joseph Cafasso</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #412C0A; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Today's Meditation</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Often Jesus asks the sick to believe. He makes use of signs to heal: spittle and the laying on of hands, mud and washing. The sick try to touch him, 'for power came forth from him and healed them all'. And so in the sacraments Christ continues to 'touch' us in order to heal us. Moved by so much suffering Christ not only allows himself to be touched by the sick, but he makes their miseries his own: 'He took our infirmities and bore our diseases'. But he did not heal all the sick. His healings were signs of the coming of the Kingdom of God. They announced a more radical healing: the victory over sin and death through his Passover. On the cross Christ took upon himself the whole weight of evil and took away the 'sin of the world', of which illness is only a consequence. By his passion and death on the cross Christ has given a new meaning to suffering: it can henceforth configure us to him and unite us with his redemptive Passion." <br> —Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1504-1505</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #412C0A; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Verse</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that he may grant you in accord with the riches of his glory to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner self, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, rooted and grounded in love." <br> –Ephesians 3:14-17</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-3 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#F5FFFA" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #F5FFFA;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-3"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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}/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module small-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-4" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="81" alt="SaintofDay1" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/1257/7637/original/SaintofDay1.gif?1473769568" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-right table-5 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#F5FFFA" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; text-align: left; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #F5FFFA;"> <tr> <td align="center" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table,table.module-5{width:63.77%;float:right;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table a{border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:100%!important;border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 0 20px 20px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> div.module-5 table.list-item td.numeric-text, div.module-5 table.last-list-item td.numeric-text{ width: 155px !important; }div.module-5 table.list-item td.bullet-text, div.module-5 table.last-list-item td.bullet-text{ width: 175px !important; }table.image-5-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }table.module-5, table.module-5 td.image-1{ width: 338px; padding: 0 0 0 20px; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module combo-right" dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-5" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: right !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="318" alt="asaint" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4581/8906/original/asaint.png?1707920301" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-5 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #412C0A; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Valentine</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Valentine of Rome (c. 270) was a priest who lived in Rome during the reign of Emperor Claudius II. Little is known of his life with certainty, except that he ministered to Christians who were persecuted and imprisoned for their faith, and died a martyr. One account has it that the emperor banned all marriages and engagements in Rome, believing this was the reason Roman men were unwilling to serve in the army. Valentine defied this unjust decree and continued to perform marriages for lovers in secret. He was arrested, and while in prison he restored sight to his jailer's blind daughter, causing the jailer and his entire extended household, forty-six people in total, to immediately convert to Christianity. Upon hearing this, Claudius ordered Valentine's execution. St. Valentine left a farewell note for the jailer's daughter, whom he had befriended, and signed it "From Your Valentine." He was beheaded on February 14th. St. Valentine is the patron of many causes including bee keepers, betrothed and engaged couples, lovers, love, happy marriages, and young people. His feast day is February 14th.</p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-6 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#F5FFFA" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #F5FFFA;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-6"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; height: auto !important;"> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-7 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#F5FFFA" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #F5FFFA;"> <tr> <td align="center" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td,table.module-7{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table a{border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:100%!important;border:0 none;text-decoration:none}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> table.image-7-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-7" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="530" alt="a1" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4581/8912/original/a1.png?1707920317" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-8 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#F5FFFA" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #F5FFFA;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-8 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <h1 align="center" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #8B0000; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: center; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Ash Wednesday</h1> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reading 1</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #412C0A; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jl 2:12-18</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Even now, says the LORD, <br> return to me with your whole heart, <br> with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; <br> Rend your hearts, not your garments, <br> and return to the LORD, your God. <br> For gracious and merciful is he, <br> slow to anger, rich in kindness, <br> and relenting in punishment. <br> Perhaps he will again relent <br> and leave behind him a blessing, <br> Offerings and libations <br> for the LORD, your God.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Blow the trumpet in Zion! <br> proclaim a fast, <br> call an assembly; <br> Gather the people, <br> notify the congregation; <br> Assemble the elders, <br> gather the children <br> and the infants at the breast; <br> Let the bridegroom quit his room <br> and the bride her chamber. <br> Between the porch and the altar <br> let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep, <br> And say, "Spare, O LORD, your people, <br> and make not your heritage a reproach, <br> with the nations ruling over them! <br> Why should they say among the peoples, <br> 'Where is their God?'"</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Then the LORD was stirred to concern for his land <br> and took pity on his people.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Responsorial Psalm</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #412C0A; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Ps 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 12-13, 14 and 17</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. (see 3a) Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.</strong> <br> Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness; <br> in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense. <br> Thoroughly wash me from my guilt <br> and of my sin cleanse me. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.</strong> <br> For I acknowledge my offense, <br> and my sin is before me always: <br> "Against you only have I sinned, <br> and done what is evil in your sight." <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.</strong> <br> A clean heart create for me, O God, <br> and a steadfast spirit renew within me. <br> Cast me not out from your presence, <br> and your Holy Spirit take not from me. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.</strong> <br> Give me back the joy of your salvation, <br> and a willing spirit sustain in me. <br> O Lord, open my lips, <br> and my mouth shall proclaim your praise. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.</strong></p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reading 2</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #412C0A; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">2 Cor 5:20—6:2</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Brothers and sisters: <br> We are ambassadors for Christ, <br> as if God were appealing through us. <br> We implore you on behalf of Christ, <br> be reconciled to God. <br> For our sake he made him to be sin who did not know sin, <br> so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Working together, then, <br> we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. <br> For he says:</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In an acceptable time I heard you, <br> and on the day of salvation I helped you.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Behold, now is a very acceptable time; <br> behold, now is the day of salvation.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Verse Before the Gospel</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #412C0A; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">See Ps 95:8</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">If today you hear his voice, <br> harden not your hearts.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Gospel</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #412C0A; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Mt 6:1-6, 16-18</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Jesus said to his disciples: <br> "Take care not to perform righteous deeds <br> in order that people may see them; <br> otherwise, you will have no recompense from your heavenly Father. <br> When you give alms, <br> do not blow a trumpet before you, <br> as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets <br> to win the praise of others. <br> Amen, I say to you, <br> they have received their reward. <br> But when you give alms, <br> do not let your left hand know what your right is doing, <br> so that your almsgiving may be secret. <br> And your Father who sees in secret will repay you.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"When you pray, <br> do not be like the hypocrites, <br> who love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on street corners <br> so that others may see them. <br> Amen, I say to you, <br> they have received their reward. <br> But when you pray, go to your inner room, <br> close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. <br> And your Father who sees in secret will repay you.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"When you fast, <br> do not look gloomy like the hypocrites. <br> They neglect their appearance, <br> so that they may appear to others to be fasting. <br> Amen, I say to you, they have received their reward. <br> But when you fast, <br> anoint your head and wash your face, <br> so that you may not appear to be fasting, <br> except to your Father who is hidden. <br> And your Father who sees what is hidden will repay you."</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-9 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#F5FFFA" style="table-layout: fixed; 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border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <a target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #A51515;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=138509.8617.1.f9737ad8f6e36a15adaa6c8891ae9171"> <img width="80" alt="wauorg" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/1150/7480/original/wauorg.jpg?1473769568" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-13 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#F5FFFA" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #F5FFFA;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-13 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Meditation: Joel 2:12-18</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Return to the Lord, your God. (Joel 2:13)</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Happy Lent! We might not think of Lent as a "happy" time, but that's the way God thinks about this season. He looks forward to it! To him, Lent is an exciting time, a hopeful time, a time for his children to come home to him. Our Father longs for each of us to grow closer to him and experience his love. And so he calls us through the prophet Joel: "Return to me with your whole heart" (2:12).</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">This is the "why" behind all our Lenten practices of fasting and repentance, of giving alms and setting aside extra time for prayer. We make these efforts not merely as an obligation or an attempt to detach from the world but as a response to God's loving call. They help us to return to him and reconnect with the One who has loved us from the beginning. With each prayer, each sacrifice, and each act of mercy, we can take one step closer to our Father.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">The good news is that God has already made the first move toward us. By sending his Son among us as a man and by giving us his Holy Spirit, God has already come close to us. He is always near, but in our human weakness and sin, we drift away from him at times and lose sight of his love. So we need to repent and return to him—and there's no better time to do this than Lent!</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">This year our opening articles focus on the parable of the prodigal son from Luke 15. Let's put ourselves into this moving story. Like the two sons in this parable, we have a choice to make. We can seize the opportunity that Lent offers us and take a step closer to the Lord. Or we can pull back and ignore God's generous invitation.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Let's not miss out on all that God has in store for us.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Father, I want to return to you with all my heart this Lent!"</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Psalm 51:3-6, 12-14, 17 <br> 2 Corinthians 5:20–6:2 <br> Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-14 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#F5FFFA" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #F5FFFA;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table.module-14{width:0%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:0%;float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table a{border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:100%!important;border:0 none;text-decoration:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module image" dir="ltr"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-15 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#F5FFFA" style="table-layout: fixed; 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}div.module-17 table.list-item td.bullet-text, div.module-17 table.last-list-item td.bullet-text{ width: 350px !important; }table.image-17-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }table.module-17, table.module-17 td.image-1{ width: 163px; padding: 0 20px 0 0; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module combo-left" dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-17" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: left !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-right: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="143" alt="2cents2" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/3780/4363/original/2cents2.jpg?1681226341" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span class="module-17 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In the Gospel today we heard: <br> <em style="font-style: italic;">"But when you give alms, <br> do not let your left hand know what your right is doing, <br> so that your almsgiving may be secret. <br> And your Father who sees in secret will repay you......"</em> end of Gospel verse. <br> . . .</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-18 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#F5FFFA" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #F5FFFA;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-18 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">From Bishop Barron: <br> "Friends, in today's Gospel, the Lord prescribes prayer, fasting, and almsgiving as our Lenten disciplines. <br> The Church traditionally says there are three things we ought to do during Lent, and I put stress on the word do. In recent years, we've emphasized the interior dimensions a little too much—that Lent is primarily about attitudes, about ideas and intentions. In the traditional practice of the Church, Lent is about doing things, things that involve the body as much as the mind, that involve the exterior of your life as much as the interior. <br> The three great practices of Lent—prayer, fasting, and almsgiving—are three things you do. This is going to sound a little bit strange, but my recommendation for this Lent is, in a certain way, to forget about your spiritual life—by which I mean forget about looking inside at how you're progressing spiritually. Follow the Church's recommendations and do three things: pray, fast, and give alms. And as you do, pray to draw closer to the Lord as the center of your life—and the reason you do everything. . . . ." end quote from Bishop Barron.</p> <hr> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Our Lord Himself is asking us to give alms, in secret, no boasting. <br> Our Lord is also asking us to pray, in secret, no showing off. <br> Our Lord is also asking us to fast, and not appear gloomy.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">This shouldn't be too hard right? Being a cheerful giver in secret? To be a more prayerful person in the interior of your room? Ultimately, what our Lord is asking us to do is to be more sincere and intimate with Him when we give .... from our hearts. Because in the end, we are doing it for Him and with Him.<br> <br> Lent is a time to be more united with the Love, the God of our life. And this is interesting to say on St. Valentine's day as Ash Wednesday has fallen on the day of lovers. And God is the greatest of lovers. What will you give to the love of your life? Is the love of your life Jesus? He should be! He should be the one we love more than anybody! You should love Him more than your spouse, and family, and friends.<br> <br> And so, we embark on a journey, towards the center of all things...the God man created in the Holy Trinity.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">†May our fasting, this mortification make us hunger for God all the more. <br> † May our alms-giving, our pouring out of ourselves out of our pocketbooks and acts of charity, may they show God how much we want to pour ourselves out for Him lavishly as He lavishes on us the very life we live. <br> † May prayers for the next 40 days be a Eucharistic prayer, of hungering for Him and giving thanks as we offer even the bad issues and hurts and pains in union with Him as a love offering to unite our sufferings as the ultimate prayer with God.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">So what happens when you give up something? Like TV or social media? Or slouching on the couch? If you give that up, you can now have time for something better....like prayer. That is the point of emptying ourselves of ourselves, and filling ourselves with Him. Then we become more pious, holy, all things as God calls us to Himself! <br> What an amazing opportunity we have before us. <br> Lord, help us take advantage of this and every opportunity to be more like You, pure sacrificial love for the world to see that Love matters.</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-19 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#F5FFFA" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #F5FFFA;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-19"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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width: 100%;"> </a> <p style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; font-style: italic; clear: both;" align="left">Click for Audio</p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-20 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Random Bible Verse 1 <br> Psalm 103:11–12</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; 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St. Veronica, as a sign of her love and compassion, offered Our Savior a veil to wipe the blood and sweat from his face as he carried his cross on the way to his crucifixion. In reward for her charity and compassion, Jesus left an impression of his Holy Face upon the veil. This meeting of Jesus and St. Veronica is forever memorialized in the Stations of the Cross. According to tradition, St. Veronica later entrusted the veil to St. Clement, a disciple of St. Peter who became the third Bishop of Rome. For the next three centuries the Holy Veil was kept in the Roman catacombs during the early persecutions of the Church. Veronica's Veil was later moved to the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome where it remains today. It is displayed annually from the relic niche above her statue in St. Peter's Basilica on the fifth Sunday of Lent. 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If you look in murky and turbulent waters, you cannot see the reflection of your face. If you want to see the face of Christ, stop and collect your thoughts in silence, and close the door of your soul to the noise of external things." <br> –St. Anthony of Padua</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #412C0A; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Today's Meditation</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">God's delays are mysterious; sorrow is sometimes prolonged for the same reason for which it is sent. God may abstain for the moment from healing, not because Love does not love, but because Love never stops loving, and a greater good is to come from the woe. Heaven's clock is different from ours." <br> —Fulton J. 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He is like a tree planted by streams of water, that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. 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border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: right !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="324" alt="asaint" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4579/6734/original/asaint.png?1707835575" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-6 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #412C0A; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Catherine del Ricci</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">St. Catherine del Ricci (1522-1590) was born with the name Alessandra in Florence, Italy, to a respectable merchant family. Her mother died while she was very young, so that from her childhood Alessandra took the Blessed Virgin Mary as her mother. She was given to prayer and religious fervor, and at the age of fourteen decided to enter a strict Third Order Dominican convent, taking Catherine as her religious name. She developed into a great mystic with an intense devotion to the Passion of Christ. For many years Catherine would go into ecstasy from noon every Thursday through 4 p.m. on Friday, experiencing in a mystical manner the sufferings of Christ during his Passion. She was also given the spiritual gift of the stigmata; Christ's wounds would appear on her body through the course of the ecstasy. After enduring much humiliation for years on account of these sufferings, she was eventually accepted as a holy woman and later became prioress. Her advice was widely sought on many spiritual and practical matters. Despite being cloistered, she kept up a loving correspondence with many relatives, friends, and her spiritual children. Among those in her correspondence were three future popes, Pope Marcellus II, Pope Clement VIII, and Pope Leo XI. Her feast day is February 13.</p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full divider table-7 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#F5FFFA" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #F5FFFA;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table{width:100%;padding:0}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table img{width:96.23%;padding:0;float:none}table div table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table+table div table td{width:100%;padding:0 1.88% 18px}/* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module divider" dir="ltr"> <div class="divider-container module-7"> <img alt="***" width="530" src="https://d1lggihq2bt4jo.cloudfront.net/assets/responsive_divider-9b113f4308bfb656413281acf5a52277430e99e06ccb20b7d6eec7e0f3eb4d40.png" style="width: 100% !important; 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}/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module large-image-container image" dir="ltr"> <table align="" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-8" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="530" alt="a1" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/4579/6741/original/a1.png?1707835595" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-9 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#F5FFFA" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #F5FFFA;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-9 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Tuesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #412C0A; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reading 1 Jas 1:12-18</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Blessed is he who perseveres in temptation, <br> for when he has been proven he will receive the crown of life <br> that he promised to those who love him. <br> No one experiencing temptation should say, <br> "I am being tempted by God"; <br> for God is not subject to temptation to evil, <br> and he himself tempts no one. <br> Rather, each person is tempted when lured and enticed by his desire. <br> Then desire conceives and brings forth sin, <br> and when sin reaches maturity it gives birth to death.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers and sisters: <br> all good giving and every perfect gift is from above, <br> coming down from the Father of lights, <br> with whom there is no alteration or shadow caused by change. <br> He willed to give us birth by the word of truth <br> that we may be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.</p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #412C0A; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Responsorial Psalm Ps 94:12-13a, 14-15, 18-19</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. (12a) Blessed the man you instruct, O Lord.</strong> <br> Blessed the man whom you instruct, O LORD, <br> whom by your law you teach, <br> Giving him rest from evil days. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Blessed the man you instruct, O Lord.</strong> <br> For the LORD will not cast off his people, <br> nor abandon his inheritance; <br> But judgment shall again be with justice, <br> and all the upright of heart shall follow it. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Blessed the man you instruct, O Lord.</strong> <br> When I say, "My foot is slipping," <br> your mercy, O LORD, sustains me; <br> When cares abound within me, <br> your comfort gladdens my soul. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Blessed the man you instruct, O Lord.</strong></p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #412C0A; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Alleluia Jn 14:23</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Alleluia, alleluia.</strong> <br> Whoever loves me will keep my word, says the Lord; <br> and my Father will love him <br> and we will come to him. <br> <strong style="font-weight: bold;">R. Alleluia, alleluia.</strong></p> <h2 align="left" style="display: block; width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; color: #412C0A; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Gospel Mk 8:14-21</h2> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">The disciples had forgotten to bring bread, <br> and they had only one loaf with them in the boat. <br> Jesus enjoined them, "Watch out, <br> guard against the leaven of the Pharisees <br> and the leaven of Herod." <br> They concluded among themselves that <br> it was because they had no bread. <br> When he became aware of this he said to them, <br> "Why do you conclude that it is because you have no bread? <br> Do you not yet understand or comprehend? <br> Are your hearts hardened? <br> Do you have eyes and not see, ears and not hear? <br> And do you not remember, <br> when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, <br> how many wicker baskets full of fragments you picked up?" <br> They answered him, "Twelve." <br> "When I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, <br> how many full baskets of fragments did you pick up?" <br> They answered him, "Seven." <br> He said to them, "Do you still not understand?"</p> <hr> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-10 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#F5FFFA" style="table-layout: fixed; 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border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0;"> <tr> <td class="single" style="padding-bottom: 18px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <a target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #A51515;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=138291.8604.1.1138a6c367c0f22eb17f662a12194dec"> <img width="80" alt="wauorg" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/1150/7480/original/wauorg.jpg?1473769568" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-14 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#F5FFFA" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #F5FFFA;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-14 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Daily Meditation: James 1:12-18</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;"><em style="font-style: italic;">All good giving and every perfect gift is from above. (James 1:17)</em></p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">What are you giving up for Lent? It's a familiar question to ask and answer on the day before Ash Wednesday. The forty days of Lent can provide a perfect opportunity to break a harmful habit like smoking or gossiping. But we don't give up desserts or social media or our favorite online game because we're on a self-improvement kick. We do it to open up space and time to love God and our neighbor better. And we might be surprised to see how we receive gifts from the Lord as a result.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">God's goodness and generosity mean that Lent can be a time of receiving, not just a time of giving up. So let's ask a different question: what gift might your heavenly Father want to give you?</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Perhaps you decide to spend more time in intercessory prayer. Maybe you set aside fifteen minutes a day—or an hour a week—to lift up all those people whose needs have come to your attention. Yes, you are "giving up" your time, but as you do, you might receive the gift of hope in difficult circumstances. Or you might start seeing situations with God's wisdom. Or you might feel the Holy Spirit leading you to pray with someone specific, or even see God give the good gift of healing.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Perhaps you decide to try to reach out to at least one person each week and offer some practical help: a meal, a ride, or a time to babysit. You might receive the gift of a greater awareness of the needs around you. Or you might find yourself feeling more compassionate toward people. You might also receive a deeper understanding of the other person's burden or concern, even if you can't do anything to alleviate it.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Perhaps you pray each morning and ask God to make you aware of his greatest concern for someone close to you—along with a concrete way to address it. As you act on these insights, you might see your priorities shifting. You might also see that ordering your day according to God's thoughts has brought you the gift of peace.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Spend some time today inviting the Lord to open your eyes to a gift he longs to give you. Then ask him how your Lenten practices can help prepare you to receive it.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">"Father, what good gift are you preparing for me this Lent?"</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Psalm 94:12-15, 18-19 <br> Mark 8:14-21</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full image table-15 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#F5FFFA" style="table-layout: fixed; 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width: 100%;"> </a> <p style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; font-style: italic; clear: both;" align="left">click to hear 2cents</p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span style="text-align: left;"><span class="module-17 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Reflections with Brother Adrian: <br> <a target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #A51515;" href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4527?id=138291.8606.1.279a4357f36484749b0883aa4f8f5552">Audio English </a></p> </span> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full combo-left table-18 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#F5FFFA" style="table-layout: fixed; 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}div.module-18 table.list-item td.bullet-text, div.module-18 table.last-list-item td.bullet-text{ width: 350px !important; }table.image-18-1{ width: 100.0% !important; }table.module-18, table.module-18 td.image-1{ width: 163px; padding: 0 20px 0 0; }/* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module combo-left" dir="ltr" align="left" style="text-align: left;"> <table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="module-18" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; float: left !important;"> <tr> <td class="combo-image" style="padding-bottom: 18px; padding-right: 20px;"> <div class="image-container" align="center" style="text-align: center;"> <img width="143" alt="2cents2" src="https://files.gem.godaddy.com/promotion_images/3780/4363/original/2cents2.jpg?1681226341" style="height: auto; width: 100%;"> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <span class="module-18 text-container" style="text-align: left !important;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">In the Gospel today we heard: <br> <em style="font-style: italic;">"The disciples had forgotten to bring bread, <br> and they had only one loaf with them in the boat. <br> Jesus enjoined them, "Watch out, <br> guard against the leaven of the Pharisees <br> and the leaven of Herod." ....."</em> end of Gospel verse. <br> . . .</p> </span> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table class="full text table-19 middle" id="" align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#F5FFFA" style="table-layout: fixed; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0; width: 100% !important; min-width: 100% !important; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; background-color: #F5FFFA;"> <tr> <td align="left" id="" style="padding-top: 0; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 30px;"> <style> /* styles */</style> <!--[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]><style> /* styles */</style><![endif]--> <div class="module text" dir="ltr"> <span class="module-19 text-container" style="text-align: left;"> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">From Bishop Barron: <br> "Friends, in today's Gospel, Jesus warns his disciples against the leaven of the Pharisees and of Herod. Conversely, he wanted them to be the leaven that would transform their culture. <br> The Second Vatican Council spoke of the universal call to holiness—the summons of all the baptized to be a transforming leaven in the wider society. The Vatican II fathers wanted to inspire a generation of great Catholic professionals in the hopes that such people would carry the holiness they learned in the Church out to their areas of specialization in the secular world. <br> The Church manifests the way of ordering things born of love—love for God and love for neighbor. Generosity, peace, nonviolence, and trust will give rise to a new way of ordering things. This is true of a family, a school, a parish, a community, a nation-state. <br> Now, how in the world does one get this project off the ground? As should be clear to even the most naïve person, this never happens all at once, overnight. Rather, in small ways, people begin living according to the Lord's ways. And then, in God's time, this new community begins to have a leavening effect on the wider society." end quote from Bishop Barron.</p> <hr> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">We heard today: "The disciples had forgotten to bring bread, <br> and they had only one loaf with them in the boat."</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">That's when our Lord spoke up, as if to be clearing His throat and as if to say "Excuse Me?...What am I to You? Didn't I just provide the bread for thousands and thousands of people, am I not God who is with You and among You?" <br> That's when He warned them to guard against the false providers of the world, and the providers of false reliance.<br> <br> And you? What about you today? Are you running short? Short on food? Short on money for the bills? Or short on money even for food? Should we take a cue from the poor widow and give our last 2 cents to God? Who would dare do that?<br> <br> Only one who completely trusts in the Lord! <br> How hard is it though, to trust like that? It can be very hard for a soul..that doubts...the soul that doubts God Himself. <br> And so, we find ourselves in the same boat, the same situation as the disciples. Let us not be quick to judge their words and actions! <br> Scriptures were very particularly written thousands of years ago, for all of us to realize in our very lives today. <br> It is for this purpose that you are hearing this message today.<br> <br> You've relied on your own understanding until now. Now, do not try to understand, but completely love our Lord Jesus, the King, the provider, the giver, the sacrificed one, the one who is oozing blood out of His side forever on the cross because of our sins. It wasn't a one time thing. <br> And now, what will we give in return? <br> Lent is beginning tomorrow. God is asking us to journey with Him for 40 days (minus feast days) into a sacrificial love. So what are we to do again? <br> Increase in Prayer. <br> Decrease in worldliness: Fast. <br> Increase in giving: Almsgiving.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">I told the people in the nursing homes "you may not have money, but you sure can give still!" And we can, we can give what we got! A smile. Give someone a break for once! Let them be loved! We can give more money, and suffer. We can stop being so like the world this lent, and be more like Christ! Often praying, often with His loved ones showing them the Way to the Father. And this is a Holy Trinity for the Holy Trinity.</p> <p align="left" style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 1.3em; margin-left: 0; padding-top: 0; padding-right: 0; padding-bottom: 0; padding-left: 0;">Let us pray today: <br> Lord, open my eyes and heart to do this in Lent, to pray more beautifully and sincerely, to be more giving, and to fast to suffer in union with You for all the Sins that still hurt You today. Help me unit more with You! 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