Dear Parishioners:
Lent is a time of Prayer, Fasting
and Almsgiving. It is a time of
preparation for Easter. We are invited
to seek a conversion, a change of heart and mind, to open ourselves to the
action of grace. God’s Spirit is active,
purifying us and freeing us to be who God calls us to be in Jesus Christ.
We discover that Prayer helps us to
learn who we are, what God esteems and values in us, what He has made us to
be. We find that Fasting shows us how to
enjoy what God gives us through our experience of His Creation in anticipation
of the Kingdom. We see that Almsgiving
shows us how to go beyond our selfish wants and desires and to share God’s
abundance, giving Him greater room to act in us with His own generosity.
This Lent, I invite you to consider
these practices with a glance to three important aspects of our Catholic Faith:
the Sacraments, our Mother Mary, and Saint Joseph Fatima . And St. Joseph
The First Sunday of Lent confronts
us with Temptation. Jesus overcomes the
devil’s wiles my putting His Father’s Will first. We can do the same. When God is our ideal, and when we are guided
by the Sacraments, by our Heavenly Mother, and by St. Joseph, we will grow in
holiness and our life becomes a means by which God is made known to others.
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