Mersey Leven Catholic Parish
Mob: 0417 279 437; mdelaney@netspace.net.au
Assistant Priest: Fr Alexander Obiorah
Mob: 0447 478 297; alexchuksobi@yahoo.co.uk
Postal Address:
Parish Office: 90 Stewart Street , Devonport 7310
(Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 10am - 3pm)
Office Phone: 6424 2783 Fax: 6423 5160
Email: mlcathparish-dsl@keypoint.com.au
Email: mlcathparish-dsl@keypoint.com.au
Secretary: Annie Davies / Anne Fisher
Pastoral Council Chair: Mary Davies
Pastoral Council Chair: Mary Davies
Parish Mass Times: mlcpmasstimes.blogspot.com.au
Weekly Homily Podcast: mikedelaney.podomatic.com
Parish Magazine: mlcathparishnewsletter.blogspot.com.au
Year of Mercy Blogspot: mlcpyom.blogspot.com.au
Our Parish Sacramental Life
Baptism: Parents are asked to contact the Parish Office to make arrangements for attending a Baptismal Preparation Session and booking a Baptism date.
Reconciliation, Confirmation and Eucharist: Are received following a Family–centred, Parish-based, School-supported Preparation Program.
Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults: prepares adults for reception into the Catholic community.
Marriage: arrangements are made by contacting one of our priests - couples attend a Pre-marriage Program
Anointing of the Sick: please contact one of our priests
Reconciliation: Ulverstone - Fridays (10am - 10:30am)
Devonport - Saturday (5:15pm– 5.45pm)
Penguin - Saturday (5:15pm - 5:45pm)
Care and Concern: If you are aware of anyone who is in need of assistance and has given permission to be contacted by Care and Concern, please phone the Parish Office.
MERSEY LEVEN CATHOLIC PARISH
Holy Week & Easter Ceremonies 2016
DEVONPORT: Our Lady of Lourdes Church
Good Friday: Commemoration of the Passion 3.00pm
 Holy Saturday: EASTER VIGIL 7.00pm
Easter Sunday: Easter Mass 11.00am
PORT SORELL: St Joseph’s Mass Centre
Good Friday: Stations of the Cross 10.00am
Easter Sunday: Easter Mass 8.00am
LATROBE: St Patrick’s Church
Good Friday: Stations of the Cross 11.00am
Easter Sunday Easter Mass 9.30am
SHEFFIELD: Holy Cross Church
Good Friday: Stations of the Cross 11.00am
Easter Sunday: Easter Mass 11.00am
ULVERSTONE: Sacred Heart Church
Holy Thursday: Mass of the Lord’s Supper 7.30pm
(Adoration till 9pm followed by Evening Prayer of the Church)
Good Friday: Commemoration of the Passion 3.00pm
Easter Sunday: Easter Mass 9.30am
PENGUIN: St Mary’s Church
Good Friday: Stations of the Cross 11.00am
Easter Sunday: Easter Mass 8.00am
Reconciliation
Monday 21st March - Our Lady of Lourdes 7pm
Wednesday 23rd March - Sacred Heart 7pm
Eucharistic Adoration:
Devonport:
concluding with Stations of the Cross and Angelus
Devonport:
Benediction with Adoration
Legion of Mary: Sacred Heart Church Community Room
Ulverstone,
Wednesdays 11am
Prayer Groups:
Charismatic Renewal – Devonport Emmaus House
Thursdays commencing 7.30pm
Christian Meditation - Devonport, Emmaus House
Wednesdays 7pm.
STATIONS OF THE CROSS: 7pm each Friday of Lent at Our Lady of Lourdes Devonport, Sacred Heart Ulverstone,
St Mary’s Penguin & St Pat’s Latrobe. Also Sacred Heart
Ulverstone 10am on Tuesdays.
Ministry Rosters 27th
& 28th February, 2016
Devonport:
Readers
Vigil: M Gaffney, M
Gerrand, H Lim 10:30am:
J Phillips, K Pearce, P Piccolo
Ministers of Communion Vigil:
M Heazlewood, B
& J Suckling, G Lee-Archer, M Kelly, P Shelverton
Cleaners 26th
Feb: K Hull, F
Stevens, M Chan 4th March: M.W.C.
Piety Shop 27th
Feb: L Murfet 28th Feb: D French
Ulverstone:
Reader:
M McLaren Ministers of Communion: B Deacon, J Allen, G Douglas, K
Reilly
Cleaners: M Swain, M Bryan Hospitality: R Clarke
Penguin:
Greeters: A Landers, P Ravaillion Commentator: Y Downes Readers: M & D Hiscutt
Procession: T Clayton, J Barker Ministers of Communion: J Garnsey, S Ewing
Liturgy: Penguin Setting Up: E Nickols Care of Church: M Bowles, J Reynolds
Port Sorell:
Reader: V Duff,
G Duff Ministers of Communion: P Anderson, B
Lee Clean/Prep: G Bellchambers, M Gillard
Readings This Week - Second Sunday of Lent
First Reading: Genesis 15:5-12, 17-18
Second Reading: Philippians 3:17-4:1
Gospel: Luke 9:28-36
PREGO REFLECTION:
As I withdraw to pray, I imagine Jesus taking
Peter, James and John up the mountain with him to pray. I try to join them,
leaving my daily preoccupations behind. I quieten my mind as I join his
presence. As I imagine the scene perhaps I am with the disciples, listening to
Jesus, Moses and Elijah. I then see Jesus transfigured in light .... Maybe I
remain in silent adoration, I listen to him. Or I can speak to him of wonder
and praise, of gratitude for his coming to suffer and die for us, or of my own
Lenten journey and how I wish to be with him as he enters his passion. It may
happen that I enter the cloud in dread or fear. I remind myself that God is in
the cloud and I strive to listen in silence, alone with him. As I speak to the
Lord maybe I can thank him for a deep experience or consolation that he granted
me in the past, or of the support of others in my community or my family and of
how we help each other to recognise the glory that is ours. I end my prayer,
conscious of being in the presence of the Trinity, saying: Glory be to the
Father....
Readings Next Week: 3rd Sunday of Lent
First Reading: Exodus 3:1-8. 13-15
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 10:1-6.
10-12
Gospel: Luke 13:1-9
 Your prayers
are asked for the sick: Pauline Burnett, Pat George, Ali Drummond, Anne Garlick, Eleanor
Mazengarb, Nora Holly, Glen Halley, Joe
Allison, Geraldine
Roden, Joy Carter, Kath Smith & …
Let us pray
for those who have died recently:
Neil Cranny, Denzil Sheehan, Jan Siejka, Peta Enniss, Bev Atkinson, Charles Holliday, Lance Cox, Lachie Berwick, Robert Hatton, Barry Aulich, Bruce Peters, Brian Barrett, Keitha Kean, Ans Swarte and Monica Darke.
Let us pray
for those whose anniversary occurs about this time: 17th – 23rd
February
Geraldine Piper, Leo Castles, Brian Maller, Frederick
Breen, Bobby Rothwell, Mervyn Burke, Nancy Kelly, Joyce McConnon, Collin Morgan, Michael Duggan, Rita
Sullivan, Enid & Hedley Stubbs.
May they Rest in Peace
WEEKLY
RAMBLINGS:
Thanks
to those parishioners who have nominated members of the Parish as candidates
for the Parish Pastoral Council. As mentioned last weekend there is a need to
add some new blood to the PPC as a number of committed parishioners have served
(in excess) of their 2 x three year terms and according to the terms of
appointment are required to stand down. Please give some consideration to
nominate suitable people to serve our Parish in this important role.
At
the Parish Finance Meeting last week a Motion was moved giving thanks for the
life and work of the late Lance Cox for his contribution to the Parish as Chair
and long time member of the Finance Committee.
Lance, as with so many other members of the Parish who have died during these
past two years (my time here as PP), made my work a Pastor quite a lot easier
by taking on many of the day to day things that consume so much time - their
passing leaves a considerable gap in our community and I am forever grateful
for their contribution to the life of this Parish.
Letters
are being sent to the Schools in our community this week giving details of the
Parish Sacramental Program for 2016. If you know of children in Grade 3 or
above who have yet to be prepared for the Sacraments of Reconciliation,
Confirmation and Eucharist please let them know of our program which will
commence shortly after Easter with Parent meetings early March. More details
next weekend.
 Please
take care on the roads and in your homes.  
With limited
support services for children living with intellectual disabilities in Laos,
Duangmala feared that her eight year old son, Hum Noy, would never reach his
full potential because he has Down Syndrome. However, Hum Noy now has the
chance to learn and thrive at a school for children with intellectual
disabilities, supported by Caritas Australia. – Please donate to Project
Compassion 2016 and help children living with intellectual disabilities in Laos
learn, grow and reach their full potential.
KNIGHTS OF THE SOUTHERN
CROSS:
The Knights of the Southern Cross
and their wives will be meeting at Furners Hotel Ulverstone on Saturday 28th
February, for a fellowship evening commencing at 6:30pm.
CWL EASTER RAFFLE: Committee members will be selling tickets
each Sunday after Mass, so please support the CWL by buying a ticket (or two)
today. Tickets $1.00 each. Prize: Easter Basket. Raffle will be drawn Sunday 20th
March.
VINNIES STORES:
Volunteers are urgently required at our Penguin,
Ulverstone and Latrobe stores. If you are able to assist please contact
6427:7100 or call in at one of our popular outlets.
Hugh Hiscutt would like to
thank
parishioners of Mersey Leven Parish for their love, support and prayers over the last few months and is glad to say he is feeling much better! 
Thursday Nights OLOL
Hall D’port. Eyes down 7.30pm.
Callers 25th
February Merv Tippett & Rod Clark.
NEWS FROM ACROSS THE ARCHDIOCESE
WORLD YOUTH
DAY 2016 – APPLY NOW!
Looking for an adventure? A faith-inspiring encounter? The
buzz of millions of young people gathered together? An experience of Pope
Francis? Have you considered World Youth Day 2016? Join other young Tasmanians
on Pilgrimage through Rome, Assisi and Milan; Czestochowa, Auschwitz, Krakow
& Prague for a life-changing experience you won’t soon forget! Applications
are open and now is the time to jump on board! If you are 16-35 years (as
at 31st December 2016) and are at all interested please contact
Rachelle ASAP on rachelle.smith@aohtas.org.au or 0400 045 368. You can also find
more information on this incredible opportunity at: www.wydtas.org.au
GRACEFEST
TASMANIA 2016
‘Gracefest’ is an exciting event for Tasmanian Christian
youth, ages 15-25, being run by the Archdiocese of Hobart. On Saturday
March 5, 6-10pm, at St Peter’s Hall next to St Mary’s Cathedral, the
evening of prayer and worship will include special performances from Christian
singer, Steven Kirk. Food for sale, festival for free! Fully supervised.
Attendance by registration: www.gracefesttasmania.org.au/
In section 6 of the Bull of Indiction, Pope
Francis quotes several extracts from the Psalms, which focus on the quality of
mercy.
“...the Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The
Lord lifts up those who are bowed down; the Lord loves the righteous. The Lord
watches over the sojourners, he upholds the widow and the fatherless; but the
way of the wicked he brings to ruin.” (Psalm 146:7-9)
Saint of the Week – St Polycarp (February 24)
Polycarp faced persecution the way Christ
did. His own Church admired him for following the "gospel model" --
not chasing after martyrdom as some did, but avoiding it until it was God's will as Jesus
did. They considered it "a sign of love to desire not to save oneself
alone, but to save also all the Christian brothers and sisters."
One day, during a bloody
martyrdom when Christians were attacked by wild animals in the arena, the crowd
became so mad that they demanded more blood by crying, "Down with the
atheists; let Polycarp be found." (They considered Christians
"atheists" because they didn't believe in their pantheon of gods.) Since
Polycarp was not only known as a leader but as someone holy "even before
his grey hair appeared," this was a horrible demand.
Polycarp was calm but others
persuaded him to leave the city and hide at a nearby farm. He spent his time in prayer
for people he knew and for the Church. During his prayer
he saw a vision of his pillow turned to fire and announced to his friends that
the dream meant he would be burned alive. This eventually came to pass, with
the-then 86-year-old being taken into custody by authorities, under the
directions of the local pro-consul.
When the fire was lit under
him, eyewitnesses reported they saw a miracle. The fire burst up in an arch around Polycarp, the flames
surrounding him like sails, and instead of being burned he seemed to glow like
bread baking, or gold being melted in a furnace. When the captors saw he wasn't
being burned, they stabbed him. The blood that flowed put the fire out.
The proconsul wouldn't let
the Christians have the body because he was afraid they would worship Polycarp.
The witnesses reported this with scorn for the lack of understanding of Christian faith: "They did not know
that we can never abandon the innocent Christ
who suffered on behalf of sinners for the salvation of those in this world."
After the body was burned, they stole the bones in order to celebrate the memory of his martyrdom and prepare others
for persecution. The date was about February 23, 156.
GOD’S INEXHAUSTIBILITY
An article by Fr Ron Rolheiser OMI. The original can be found here  Many of us, I am sure, have been inspired by the movie, Of Gods and Men, which tells the story of a group of Trappist monks who, after making a painful decision not to flee from the violence in Algeria in the 1990s, are eventually martyred by Islamic extremists in 1996. Recently, I was much inspired by reading the diaries of one of those monks, Christophe Lebreton. Published under the title, Born from the Gaze of God, The Tibhirine Journal of a Martyr Monk, his diaries chronicle the last three years of his life and give us an insight into his, and his community’s, decision to remain in Algeria in the face almost certain death. In one of his journal entries, Christophe shares how in this situation of hatred and threat, caught between Islamic extremists on one side and a corrupt government on the other, in seeking ground for hope, he draws upon a poem, The Well, by a French poet, Jean-Claude Renard: But how can we affirm it’s already too late to fulfill the desire- so patient does the gift remain; and when always, perhaps, something or someone says, from the depth of silence and nakedness, that an ineffable fire continues to dig in us beneath wastelands peopled by thorns a well that nothing exhausts. a well that nothing exhausts. Perhaps that is the real basis for hope. For all of us there are times in life when we seem to lose hope, when we look at the world or at ourselves and, consciously or unconsciously, think: “It’s too late! This has gone too far! Nothing can redeem this! All the chances to change this have been used up! It’s hopeless!” But is this natural, depressive feeling in fact a loss of hope? Not necessarily. Indeed it is precisely when we feel this way, when we have succumbed to the feeling that we have exhausted all of our chances, it’s then that hope can arrive and replace its counterfeits, wishful thinking and natural optimism. What is hope? We generally confuse hope with either wishful thinking or with natural optimism, both of which have little to do with hope. Wishful thinking has no foundation. We can wish to win a lottery or to have the body of a world-class athlete, but that wish has no reality upon which to draw. It’s pure fantasy. Optimism, for its part, is based upon natural temperament and also has little to do with hope. Terry Eagleton, in a recent book, Hope without Optimism, suggests rather cynically that optimism is simply a natural temperament and an enslaving one at that: “The optimist is chained to cheerfulness.” Moreover, he asserts, that the optimist’s monochrome glaze over the world differs from pessimism only by being monochromatically rosy instead of monochromatically gray. Hope isn’t a wish or a mood; it is a perspective on life that needs to be grounded on a sufficient reality. What is that sufficient reality? Jim Wallis, a salient figure of Christian hope in our time, says that our hope should not be grounded on what we see on the news of the world each night because that news constantly changes and, on any given night, can be so negative so as to give us little ground for hope. He’s right. Whether the world seems better or worse on a given evening is hardly sufficient cause for us to trust that in the end all will be well. Things might change drastically the next night. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who perennially protested that he was a man of hope rather than of optimism, in an answer to a question, once suggested that there are two sufficient reasons for hope. Asked what would happen if we blew up the world with an atomic bomb, he replied: That would set things back a few million years, but God’s plan for the earth would still come about. Why? Because Christ promised it and, in the resurrection, God shows that God has the power to deliver on that promise. Hope is based on God’s promise and God’s power. But there is still another reason for our hope, something else that grounds our hope and gives us sufficient reason to live in trust that eventually all will be well, namely, God’s inexhaustibility. Underneath and beneath, beneath us and beneath our universe, there is a well that nothing exhausts. And it is this which we so often forget or slim down to the limited size of our own hearts and imaginations: God is a prodigal God, almost unimaginable in the scope of physical creation, a God who has created and is still creating billions upon billions of universes. Moreover, this prodigal God, so beyond our imagination in creativity, is, as has been revealed to us by Jesus, equally unimaginable in patience and mercy. There is never an end to our number of chances. There is no limit to God’s patience. There is nothing that can ever exhaust the divine well. It’s never too late! God’s creativity and mercy are inexhaustible.
The Yahweh Prayer
This is an extract from the daily email sent from the Center for Action and Contemplation by Fr Richard Rohr. You can subscribe to receive the emails here
The breath is a primary example of how we cannot control our
happiness despite our best efforts. Our bodies breathe automatically, without
contrivance, clinging, over-thinking. The air is freely given. We can only
realize our dependence upon the air that surrounds us and surrender to the
gratuity of air coming and going.
A rabbi taught this prayer to me many years ago. I write
about it in the second chapter of my book The Naked Now. The Jews did not speak
God's name, but breathed it with an open mouth and throat: inhale--Yah;
exhale--weh. By our very breathing we are speaking the name of God. This makes
it our first and our last word as we enter and leave the world.
Breathe the
syllables with open mouth and lips, relaxed tongue:
Inhale--Yah
Exhale--weh
During a
period of meditation, perhaps twenty minutes, use this breath as a touchstone.
Begin by connecting with your intention, your desire to be present to God.
Breathe naturally, slowly, and deeply, inhaling and exhaling Yah-weh. Let your
focus on the syllables soften and fall away into silence. If a thought,
emotion, or sensation arises, observe but don't latch on to it. Simply return
to breathing Yah-weh.
You may be distracted numerous times. And perhaps your
entire practice will be full of sensations clamoring for attention.
Contemplation is truly an exercise in humility! But each interruption is yet
another opportunity to return to Presence.
Faith:the substance of things to be hoped for
A recent article from the ThinkingFaith.org website celebrates the historic event when Catholics and Anglicans gathered for Solemn Vespers. The article by Gerard Gilroy describes a memorable evening of discussion and shared liturgy which would, he says, have met with the approval of Edmund Campion.
As the last bright shafts of a wintry sun transformed the Tudor towers of the west gate of Hampton Court Palace into a stage set, guests poured in, turning their backs on the handful of protesters on the bridge over the Thames and on four centuries of religious division in this country. ‘Faith and the Crown’, which was drawing so many enthusiastic priests and laity into the Palace on 9 February 2016, had at its heart the joint celebration by the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, and the Bishop of London, Richard Chartres, of Solemn Vespers in the Chapel Royal. While the Cardinal led the intercessions to Our Lady, the Bishop, who is also Dean of Her Majesty’s Chapels Royal, preached a powerful sermon that combined a sense of the historic significance of the occasion with clarity about the major issues of our time, including the challenge of the largest refugee crisis in recorded history.
Before Vespers began, we filed into the Great Hall (a building begun by Cardinal Wolsey and finished by Henry VIII) for a discussion. Beneath the stunning hammer-beam roof, the two churchmen made clear they had not only known each other some time, but also received consecration as bishops in the same year, 1992. The dialogue began with the two men pointing to some of the paradoxes of the English reformation, including the survival of the most famous recusant of the Chapel Royal, William Byrd (1540–1623), during the reign of Elizabeth. The Cardinal spoke of the current shift in Catholic attitudes as a result of Vatican II, and quoted Pope John Paul II: ‘Truth cannot be imposed, only proposed’. When Cardinal Nichols said that Catholics were now a significant minority, Bishop Chartres quipped: ‘We are all minorities now’.
The churchmen then considered the wider challenges facing Western society. Both men ruefully reflected on the erosion of the Judaeo-Christian foundation of democracy: focus groups were no substitute. The young, they said, were especially vulnerable to extremism because of the lack of meaning in their lives, which meant that some could go ‘from teenager to terrorist in four weeks’. Nevertheless, the discussion ended on a strongly affirmative note. Both agreed that religion was a huge resource in a post-modern age all too sure it had the answers to everything; both wished to make common cause on this ‘darkling plain’ against specific evils such as human trafficking, and against the wider ‘long, withdrawing roar’ of the ‘Sea of Faith’.
Many of those present were moved by what they carefully avoided discussing. The choice of Vespers meant that divergent views on the Eucharist were not thrust onto the stage, nor were thorny issues such as the apostolic succession or the ordination of women. While the event avoided such traditional obstacles to unity, it showed that the two churches could pray and talk together, even in a royal palace. If it is true that the Defensor Fidei would have turned in his grave at the presence of a Cardinal of the church of St Alphonsus Liguori in Rome, Henry’s defence of the seven sacraments and of the faith of the catholic and apostolic church was as demented as his treatment of women. On 30 July 1540, two days after the execution of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII had three priests hanged for denying the royal supremacy, and three burnt for denying transubstantiation. As Sir John Harington wrote at the end of Elizabeth’s reign, the Crown had made four changes of religion in ‘little more than fourteen years’, all with more than a whiff of ‘necessary policy’. This was why ‘Faith and the Crown’, the title chosen for the event by John Studzinski, Chairman of the Genesis Foundation, was so appropriate. The reformation in England sprang more from political necessity than theological difference, substituted royal supremacy for papal supremacy, replaced the rood-screen with the royal coat of arms and the Blessed Virgin with the Virgin Queen. Both John Foxe (1516–1587), the greatest Protestant martyrologist, and Edmund Campion (1540–1580), the foremost Jesuit martyr, believed that academic disputation, and not persecution, was the answer to religious difference; Campion asked the Queen and her Privy Council for a public disputation with ‘the Doctors and Masters and chosen men of both universities’, and John Foxe obtained and preserved manuscript accounts of three of Campion’s disputations in the Tower. It is not surprising to find that Foxe also pleaded in several letters to the Council for Campion’s life. What both men passionately desired was serious theological disputation, but like the prophets in the Letter to the Hebrews, who ‘died according to faith, not having received the promises, but beholding them afar off’ (a mere four hundred years in this case), Foxe and Campion can only salute those who, like them, ‘desire a better, that is say, a heavenly country’, and seek it by viva voce discussion and a shared liturgy.
Jon Round, Chairman of the Choral Foundation, was responsible for the magnificent music that followed. The Sixteen, a choir that was originally formed in Magdalen College, Oxford by Harry Christophers, and the Genesis Sixteen, joined forces to sing Solemn Vespers of the Blessed Virgin in the Chapel Royal. The plainchant was sung with beauty and precision, and punctuated by polyphonic antiphons and a ‘Magnificat’ by Thomas Tallis (c.1505–1585). The organist, Matthew Martin, fittingly ended with an organ voluntary of his own composition, on the organ restored by the Choral Foundation: a tribute to its role in nurturing young musicians.
As the guests left Hampton Court Palace, now quietly freezing in bitter north winds, they could not help but feel that the evening in the Great Hall and the Chapel Royal was a landmark, which showed how far both churches have travelled. Of course, difficult doctrinal issues remain, but meanwhile we can talk, pray and sing together, and so unite the best elements in two great traditions of music and theology. John Studzinski believes that ‘there is nothing like direct personal dialogue in a shared space’; his belief was confirmed in a thousand ways by this memorable evening of committed theological discussion and soaring sacred music.
Gerard Kilroy is Honorary Visiting Professor at University College London.
LENT 2016
From the blog of Fr Michael White, Pastor of the Church of the Nativity, Baltimore. The original article can be found here  “I will suffer and be killed, and then I will be raised.” Luke 9.22 Reading this Gospel passage I always wonder what the original disciples must have felt when they heard these words spoken by Jesus. His message is suffering and death and then a strange promise they did not understand. Furthermore, he tells his disciples, if you want to follow me, the same goes for you. You will suffer. You might even die. And he wasn’t speaking figuratively or metaphorically about suffering and death. Jesus meant what he said. And most all of his apostles and many of his disciples did just that. It’s difficult to receive these words today in the same way the disciple’s would have heard them. We live in a different time and culture. And we are very blessed to daily enjoy freedom and opportunity, especially when it comes to practicing our faith. But as much as we might wish to, we just can’t tame or tone down the Gospel. The truth of its message resists our best efforts to domesticate it. The Cross stands in the way. The season of Lent is about taking steps along the Way of the Cross. We do this by sacrificing little things, simple things, things that no one will notice and hardly seem to matter. We make “sacrifices” that could almost seem silly to an outsider. And you know what? They are precious in the sight of heaven. St. Thomas Aquinas said that even the smallest sacrifice, undertaken to worship and honor God, is precious in the sight of the Lord. That is why we fast from certain foods or daily comforts, it is why we make at least a little extra time for prayer, it is why we serve in ministry and give sacrificially. It is all precious in the sight of the Lord because it is a reflection of the Cross. In a little way, it is a suffering and dying. Whatever you’ve decided to do this Lent, and anything is of value, choose to do it because you want to follow Christ by carrying a cross for these forty days. The challenge Jesus sets out is this: Either the Cross stands in your way, or the Cross is your way. |
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