Saturday after Ash Wednesday, March 04, 2017. 1st Reading: Isaiah 58:9b-14 Thus says the LORD: If you remove from your midst oppression,false accusation and malicious speech;If you bestow your bread on the hungry and satisfy the afflicted; Then light shall rise for you in the darkness, and the gloom shall become for you like midday; … [Read more…]
“I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance” Lk. 5:32. “…tear your heart and not your garments” Joel 2:13. Kindness is a thing of the heart and not the hand. So are you weak enough to show a little act of kindness not out of compulsion but freely from the heart? … [Read more…]
Friday after Ash Wednesday,March 3, 2017 1st Reading: Book of Isaiah 58:1-9a. Thus says the Lord GOD: Cry out full-throated and unsparingly, lift up your voice like a trumpet blast; Tell my people their wickedness, and the house of Jacob their sins. They seek me day after day, and desire to know my ways, Like … [Read more…]
“Stay with me, Lord, for it is necessary to have You present so that I do not forget You. You know how easily I abandon You. Stay with me, Lord, because I am weak and I need Your strength, that I may not fall so often….” (Stay with me, Lord by St. Pio of Pietrelcina). … [Read more…]
Thursday after Ash Wednesday, March 02, 2017. 1st Reading:Book of Deuteronomy 30:15-20 Moses said to the people: “Today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and doom. If you obey the commandments of the LORD, your God, which I enjoin on you today, loving him, and walking in his ways, and keeping his … [Read more…]