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  • Lenten Message 2008

    The Catholic Daughters Wish You a Blessed and

    Prayerful Lenten Season

     

    Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent. The term “Ash Wednesday” derives from the Latin dies cinerum (day of ashes). The ashes placed on our foreheads today are the remains of palms blessed on last year’s Palm Sunday. The words our priests use when placing the ashes on us -- “Remember, man, that thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return” -- are not uttered to depress or alarm us but as a reminder of the temporal nature of our earthly lives.

    When we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior, a perpetual light will shine upon us and life everlasting awaits us in the presence of the Lord when our earthly bodies do “return to dust.”

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    National Chaplain's Sunday Reflection

    Today we have an odd collection of readings. Job, in the first reading, is so depressed and overwhelmed by the awfulness of life that he is sure that he will never see happiness again. The ending of the Book of Job, of course, shows him totally restored and once again happy. read more

    I've gone a lot of places in my life, but one place I've never been to is a circus, so recenlty, here in Mexico there was a traveling circus and I went. Every circus worth its salt has a high wire act of some kind, whe re a performer walks along a tightrope high in the air. read more


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