Fifth Sunday of Lent

Dear Parishioners,

    Lent is passing by.  How has it gone?  Sometimes I hear people say, “I have not kept my Lenten resolution.”  They say it with a sense of defeat.  But are our Lenten promises related to our promise to carry the cross?

    Each week in Lent we have a time when we pray the Stations of the Cross together.  What we notice as we do that devotion is that Jesus falls three times.  He does not stop when he falls, but he gets up and moves forward.  Just because we have failed at our Lenten penance once that does not mean we have to give up on the whole enterprise.  We still have a couple of weeks of Lent. What could we do during these two weeks?

A good lesson we can learn during Lent is even if we fail God will love us.  Confident people fail and try again.  Are we confident in the Lord?  Lent can be a time when we see how much faith, hope and love we have.

May Our Lady and all the Angels and Saints watch over us.

Fr. Mark

P.S. I wanted to acknowledge several people who helped with our move to a new living space. I apologize in advance for anyone I miss on this list.  We had to limit the people who helped because of COVID 19 so we were lean and mean and worked quickly:

•  Diane Kennedy and Pat Julius put in many hours making window treatments for the priest’s quarters.
• Denise Maynard, Sarah Murray, Sandy Madison, Linda Wolbers, Mary Drymiller and Jennifer DeWitt moved the kitchen and organized it.
• Mike Maynard and Dave Coene coordinated a number of younger parishioners who moved the furniture.
• Kate Schaefer and Bobbie Vidmar moved the linens.
• Dick Curry has done numerous handyman projects that have saved the parish a lot of money.
• As I have said before, Don Lewis and Pami Triebel oversaw the painting.

THANKS TO ALL THESE PEOPLE AND TO ANYONE I MISSED.

Blessings,

Fr. Mark