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Perhaps Bridget’s greatest impact on her world was her ability to empower women. Bridget’s life was not the normal route a divine woman had taken in the past. Click here to read more about her.

The heart of the Church's life and mission is to be a witness to Christ's resurrection. So, apostles and bishops, are to be living evidence of the risen Christ. But not just bishops. Peter says "a witness with us," and "us" refers not to the 11 Apostles but to the gathered Christians, all the companions of Jesus, all of us.

Faith and baptism lead into a new life, the life of the resurrected, over whom death has no power. Hence baptisms are traditionally held in the night of Easter (at the Vigil). Our “newborns” (neophytes-newly baptized) are now one week old. Let us hope that the food that we – as the Church – give to our newborn sisters and brothers is tasty and nourishing.

The time of year that we call Holy Week involves events that are both from the Bible and tradition. The first day we call Palm Sunday. It celebrates the entrance of Jesus into the holy city, Jerusalem. It is a time of great expectations.

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After this Sunday there are not many more days of the Lenten season left. This supplication for help leads us closer to passion and the cross.

This weekend is Laetare “Rejoice” Sunday, which is the mid-marker of the Lenten season. It’s an intermission of sorts, an opportunity to take a breather and then dive deeper into a program of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving in preparation for the Paschal feast.

We begin mass today expressing dependence upon God, and desire toward Him, hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord. My eyes are always on the Lord; This is an indication of the habitual state of mind of the psalmist. His trust in God is fixed.

Special thanks to the Family Life Office in the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas for publishing this newsletter. Enjoy reading the March/April 2021 issue.

There are three things here as we conform our attitude before we approach the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar today; God’s merciful call to us all; the response of the devout soul to that call; the prayer built upon both the call and the response.

The forty-day journey of Lent leads to Calvary on Good Friday, and from there to the resurrection. It is a journey towards Easter, but it brings us first to the cross. It is a difficult journey on which, like Jesus and with Jesus, we will be put to the test.

From the time of the early church, Lent had three foci: (1) the final, intense preparation for those to be baptized at the Easter Vigil, (2) a period leading to restoration for those alienated from the church, the Christian community, (3) a time of preparation for all the faithful leading up to the annual celebration of the paschal mystery of the death and resurrection of Christ.

Lent is a 40 day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that begins on Ash Wednesday.

Be, my protector, O God, A mighty stronghold to save me. For you are my rock, my stronghold! Lead me, guide me, for the sake of your name. - Psalm 31: 3-4 God’s invitation to the mass today recalls King David: a man after God’s own heart

Scholastica, the first Benedictine nun, lived between 480 and 543. A native of Norcia, in the province of Perugia, Italy, she was a disciple of her brother, St. Benedict, who encouraged her in perfection of holiness, in learning the wisdom of the heart.

Christianity offers a positive approach to being a human, it gives us dignity by relating us to a trustworthy Creator who is a friend of life.

The saints are sent to us by God as so many sermons. We do not use them, it is they who move us and lead us, to where we had not expected to go.

Don’t miss this! Devotions like walking the Stations of the Cross during Lent, receiving ashes on Ash Wednesday, kissing the cross on Good Friday and getting our throats blessed on St. Blaise day are essential parts of our Catholic heritage.

St. Paul has one of the most dramatic and famous conversion stories of all time. He was born a Roman citizen in Tarsus. He was a highly educated Jewish man who was trained in classical disciplines such as rhetoric and in the strict observance of Mosaic law.

Pope Francis encourages us to understand all that combines to make it possible to protect life.