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233 total views Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI used to say that the imagery of the desert during the season of Lent is an invitation for us to remember, to revisit and to return to our very “first love” of all – God. Yes! God is our first love for he is the first to love us,
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133 total views Thank you for this gift of first Friday in March, a Friday after Ash Wednesday as we begin our 40 day journey of Lent; forgive us, dear God our Father, that gone are the days when we your children religiously observed fasting and abstinence; we have ceased fasting not only on the prescribed
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192 total views Thank you very much, dear God our loving Father for the gift of prayer today: to pray to you, to remember you is already a choice for life, a rejection of death. Moses said to the people: “I call heaven and earth today to witness against you: I have set before you life
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290 total views For the third straight year, we enter the Season of Lent in the most unusual conditions in the world. Perhaps, even surreal. We had in 2020 the start of the COVID-19 pandemic persisting through 2021 up to the present that has altered the way we live and how we look at life. Just
