Let’s challenge ourselves this Lenten Season with 40 days of Sacrifice. Lent is the time when we devote ourselves to fasting, abstinence, penitence, and making personal sacrifices in preparation for Easter. We can prepare this year by doing a different sacrifice for each day of Lent to bring us closer to Jesus. Lent begins on … [Read more…]
Ash Wednesday, March 01, 2017. 1st Reading: Joel 2:12-18 Even now, says the LORD, return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; Rend your hearts, not your garments,and return to the LORD, your God. For gracious and merciful is he, slow to anger, rich in kindness, and relenting in punishment. … [Read more…]
Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time, Year A, February 28, 2017. 1st Reading: Book of Sirach 35:1-12. To keep the law is a great oblation, and he who observes the commandments sacrifices a peace offering. In works of charity one offers fine flour, and when he gives alms he presents his sacrifice of … [Read more…]
Monday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time, Year A, February 27, 2017. 1st Reading: Book of Sirach 35:1-12. To keep the law is a great oblation, and he who observes the commandments sacrifices a peace offering. In works of charity one offers fine flour, and when he gives alms he presents his sacrifice of … [Read more…]
