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Daily Prayer, Spirituality and Worship in the Roman Catholic Tradition

Here's a quick video look at monthly deportation statistics comparing the Biden and Trump administrations.
LENT is a season to do some spring-cleaning in the many rooms of our hearts and to ready them for celebrating God’s gift of new life at Easter.LENT is a season to prepare for Easter by: prayer (with the church and alone); fasting (learning to hunger for God); and generous giving (caring for the poor).LENT is a time for getting back to basics: to learn again and to practice for forty days how we should live as Christians every day of the year.LENT is a time for coming home: coming home to the Church community; coming home to prayer; coming home to God.LENT is spring training for Christians: a time to get in shape, spiritually; a time to strengthen what's weak within us and tone up what's already strong within us.LENT is a time to make the time to begin to actually do the things we so often say we want and hope to do - but just never seem to have or make the time to get around to doing them...LENT is a time for getting ready to celebrate EASTER (April 5). Easter is at the heart of our life as Christians and Lent is the way to prepare for Easter joy!



On the dark days, Lord,
when thick clouds shade my heart,
shine your guiding light upon my steps...
Be the light that burns within me,
in my corners of confusion...
Be the light upon my path
to show the way when I am lost...
Be a light to search me out
when I'm huddled in the shadows...
Draw me out of my own darkness
to the light your presence brings...
Be the midday sun and share with me
the warmth of your embrace...
Be the moon's light in my night sky,
aglow in all my dreams...
Be a light of truth and wisdom
in my random, foolish thoughts....
Be my light of hope and trust, Lord,
when sadness fills my soul...
This will be the 15th year that I've had small Lenten pocket crosses made to send to my readers. Each year, the cross is engraved with a few words, usually from scripture. (There's no charge for receiving a cross - you just need to send me a self-addressed stamped envelope (3 first class stamps!) Here are some samples from the past:
I'm about to order this year's crosses - but I'm not sure about what words to have engraved on them...
I'd be happy to receive your suggestions!
Just leave a comment on this post with your idea. As you can see above, 3 lines is the maximum!
I need to order these crosses soon - Ash Wednesday is February 18! - so don't delay in sending a suggested text.
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| Image: George Mendoza |
Good morning, good God!

On Sundays, Night Prayer will focus on an element from the day's celebration of Mass. This evening we'll continue to pray with Matthew's account (chapter 5) of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount where he gives us the Beatitudes as a template for Christian life. This passage immediately brought to mind John Becker's setting of this text as "Lead Me, Lord," exquisitely arranged in the widget below by Mark Hayes. There's a line in Becker's refrain which comes later in Matthew's gospel (chapter 7) where Jesus counsels us to follow the narrow path to life forever. This evening, I invite you to pray first with the song and then to reflect on the prayer that follows it...