Blessed (middle) beginning of
Lent! May this be a time a prayer and growth for you. Some of you may have
dreams of giving up coffee, while the rest of your family is desperately hoping
you won’t or you may be planning to give up that one dessert that you don’t
like anyway, or you are somewhere between these two extremes, but remember that
Lent is about YOUR relationship with God. Not about ignoring Lenten fasting
and penance altogether or about making everyone else around you
suffer. The three goals we are given is PRAYER, FASTING and ALMS
GIVING. Your Lent should be balanced with all three. It is even possible
to occasionally put all three together. Maybe get a plain coffee
instead of the Carmel Latte you love and use the extra money to buy a meal for
someone else, while you pray for that person…that will touch your heart and
someone else’s. When we truly put our faith into practice, it becomes
very real and tangible to us, this helps us, but it also helps the people
around us as well. This Lent take the challenge to take your faith seriously
and also make it tangible in your life so it can be a witness to others.
Today, on the Feast of the Birth of Mary, our new postulants entered the postulancy of our American Province of the Sisters of St. Francis of the Martyr St. George! We thank God for the gift of these vocations. Pictured above - on their very first full day in the convent - are (from left) Ashley Vola, Samantha Goodson, Miranda Edgar, Jennifer Clark and Erin Leis. Welcome, Postulants! We Sisters are grateful that you have accepted Christ's invitation to belong totally to Him in our Franciscan community, and we support you wholeheartedly with our prayers and help! If you would like to send a word of welcome and encouragement to these new postulants, we will pass the greetings along to them. Just leave them as a "comment"!
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