How’s Your Lent Going?
As of this 5th
Sunday of Lent, we’re more than halfway through Lent and skidding into Holy Week
with Palm Sunday coming up next week. How have your Lenten practices been
going? Are you still craving bacon cheeseburgers on Fridays like me? Are you
finding kindness and generosity a little easier to remember each day? Are you
reflecting on how God is looking out for you?
The Gospel this weekend is
that amazing story of the raising of Lazarus from the dead. There’s lots of
symbolism in this scripture for sure. I’d just put before you the most basic
questions: where in my own life do I need to live more fully? How do I need to
die to self in order to live for others? There's enough there for prayer and meditation to take me all through the Easte season!
As I look ahead to Palm Sunday I always find myself pondering this question: If we longed for the Eucharist
the way we desire our palm branches on Palm Sunday, what would the Catholic
Church look like?
Can you imagine what an
amazing powerhouse for good we could be as a church, as a people of God, if we
understood what Jesus in the Eucharist truly is for us….if we got half as
excited about communion as we do palm branches?
What do we value more, palm branches or Jesus in the Eucharist? What do
our actions say? How can we be more true to what our hearts long for?
This is what I’m thinking
and praying about this week. I’d love to know what you’re thinking and praying
about as we come to the end of Lent. Email me at jayneporcelli@sfdsnyc.org and let me know!
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