Setting our Lenten Priorities

Today's "Mardi Gras" Gospel, has none of the frolic and revelry of the weeks long New Orleans celebration, but rather is a somber call to look carefully at our priorities...The following passage is not so much about wealth, but rather about anything that stands in the way of a deeper personal relationship with Jesus.  To whom, to what have we given our hearts that might put Jesus "last" when he should be "first"?  Read, ponder, decide what would be best to do during the rich season of Lent.

MK 10:28-31 Peter began to say to Jesus, “Look, we have left everything and followed you!” Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields, for my sake and for the sake of the good news, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this age: houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions, and eternal life in the age to come. But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.” Bro. Rene