Greetings in Christ, all!
Holy Cow, Lent is here! Can you believe it? On Ash Wednesday, we will add a Mass. We’ll be praying Mass at:
· 6:30 am
· 8:00 am
· 6:00 pm
At 12:15 pm, we will have a service for the distribution of ashes. It’ll look like Mass all the way through until the homily when we will distribute ashes and then prayerfully conclude.
This year, Fr. Le and I will be preaching some of the Corporal Works of Mercy and the Spiritual Works of Mercy for our Lenten homilies. We are quite excited about this!
The only bummer in the midst of it all is that this Lent we will not be able to offer 12 hours of confession as we have the last six years. There simply aren’t enough priests to cover it. The good news? We will have three priests available at every scheduled confession time during Lent, instead of two. Praise God. Please plan your Lenten Confession well.
I want to end on a serious note. I’ve noticed some ads in our community for Tarot Card Readings, Palm Readings, Fortune Telling, etc. As your priest, I simply cannot encourage you strongly enough to stay away from these things. This is witchcraft and we stay away from such things with no exceptions. Whether the person is running a scam or is sincere doesn’t matter to the spirits that infect our world; they will seize any chance to damage us or separate us from God’s grace. Please, please do not participate in any of this.
If you have done so in the past, please make sure to mention it in your next confession so that Jesus can forgive and heal you. He loves you so much.
Thanks for hearing me out on this, I share this with you with great love and care. I don’t want us doing anything in innocence or ignorance that could hurt our souls.
I love being your priest. Let’s really get after it together this Lent.
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