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PREPARING FOR NEXT WEEK
Third Sunday of Lent Reflection: Thirsting for God By SISTER MARY McGLONE Today’s Liturgy of the Word starts us out with the Israelites and Moses in the desert. After accepting God’s invitation to abandon slavery for freedom, the people quickly started complaining: They missed the food the Egyptians let them have, they feared they would […]
CALL TO WORSHIP & CENTERING PRAYERS
First Sunday of Lent Call to worship This is the time of fulfillment. We begin the holy season of Lent facing our human temptations with the support of God’s love, ready to change our lives for the better. We take the journey of Lent seriously — rejecting temptation, rebalancing our priorities and choosing to be […]
THE WORD OF GOD THIS WEEK
First Sunday of Lent Reflection: Be wary of temptations By SISTER MARY McGLONE “Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil.” Now that’s a mind-blowing sentence! Was Jesus really tempted? Doesn’t temptation imply a confusion or indecisiveness that seems uncharacteristic of Jesus? Was he really that human? Another […]
PREPARING FOR NEXT WEEK
Second Sunday of Lent Reflection: Transfiguring our lives hard to describe By SISTER MARY McGLONE On our worst days, we might say that we feel as bad as we look on our driver’s license. At the other end of the spectrum, wealthy people can commission their portraits that erase blemishes and make even the plainest […]
March 29 luncheon to benefit the Abraham House
The Mount Carmel Society will host a Lenten Luncheon at 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 29, in the Salerno Room. The cost is $8 per person, which includes minestrone soup and a choice of a grilled cheese or tuna sandwich. All proceeds will benefit the Abraham House. Tickets are being sold after all Masses and in […]
Gallery: Ash Wednesday begins the season of Lent 2023
The holy season of Lent began on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 22. In one of his “Wise & Otherwise” articles, Father Jim writes: “The gospel names some of the traditional Lenten practices undertaken by Christians in order to help them achieve their goal: almsgiving, prayer and fasting. “Most of us pick something to ‘do’ or to […]