Note: As you will notice below, the Ash Wednesday slice of bread appears...missed the deadline by less than a minute...on track for a similar snafu today as Microsoft decided it was time for some sort of update that took a LONG time. Apologies again.
Yesterday we began with Ashes, reminding us of the shortness of this life: "Remember you are dust, and to dust you shall return." Sobering, to say the least. Today we are his with the CROSS. After explicitly telling his disciples the he is going to suffer, be rejected, killed, and will rise again on the third day, (cf. Lk 9:22), he tells all who hope to follow him that suffering lies in wait for them too. "If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. What profit is there for one to gain the whole world yet lose or forfeit himself?" (Lk 9:23 -25). Being a Christian is not for sissies, and despite the various intensities of the crosses we bear, they are inevitable. Lent is here to help us digest and absorb this reality.
Bro. Rene
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