Lent Is In The Air
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Wife, mother, blogger, Catholic ministry. I love to garden even when it goes wrong. Same with writing (and we know it can go wrong.) Believing that God is present in all of it.
And they said to him, ” The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees do the same; but yours eat and drink” . Jesus answered them, “Can you make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? But the day will come when the bridegroom is…
Each Ash Wednesday we hear the Prophet Joel remind us to “rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the Lord your God.” Today, the word “rend” caught my attention. (Rend, meaning “to tear apart (violently); rip in two” according to the Oxford Dictionary). We know that Joel is referencing the traditional Old Testament…
From today’s reading; Mt. 25:34-40 “Then the king will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger…
It feels as though in some ways we have been reliving and reliving that old Lenten feeling. Sure, we have had periodic reprieves where we are able to come up for air, bask in the sun and feel a little careless, but those days seem far too fleeting. Many of us have done our best…