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I’m always tempted to use Lent as a self-improvement program: a time to give up judging others, eat healthier, quit wasting my money on coffee shop treats to give it to charity instead, etc. Then I remember that Jesus didn’t go into the desert for 40 days for a self-improvement course.

Filling the Basket This Lent

Lent calls us into deeper everyday stewardship because it beautifully creates opportunities to be mindful of the call of Christ in even the most mundane moments of our day.

Many of us will participate in the time-honored tradition of doing penance,

Human beings did not come to believe in God just because of someone’s private testimony about him. Rather, belief in God became real when human beings understood that all of human history is being guided and lead, kept and sustained by a God who is incredibly in love with all that he has made.

For Sunday, March 6, 2022
1st Sunday of Lent

Deuteronomy 26:4-10
Romans 10:8-13
Luke 4:1-13

We forget that to be human means to accept our growing pains.

Praying the Sunday Gospel with Lectio Divina
Saturday, March 5, 9-10:30 am
St. Anthony Campus, Fr. Niehaus Room

Lent Taizé Prayer Service
Wednesday, March 9, 5:30 pm
St.

When I was growing up, Lent was a drag. To me, its only significance was that on Fridays, we ordered Filet-O-Fish sandwiches instead of hamburgers at McDonald’s. Oh, and I deprived myself of desserts so that I would appreciate them more come Easter.

Call a solemn assembly; gather the people… assemble the aged; gather the children… —Joel 2:15b-16

Hopefully, after living through two years of the covid pandemic, we no longer take public gatherings for granted. Most of us didn’t go to Ash Wednesday services last year because there weren’t many in-person services then.

Last night the Evansville City Council unanimously voted to approve all funding allocations! That’s $10 million for adult and children’s mental health services, $5 million into the affordable housing trust fund, and $300,000 for the Evansville Diversion Center at United Caring Services!!

Leanne Hudson and the League of Women Voters will conduct a voter registration at both churches the weekend of March 19-20. They will be able to help you with your voters registration via website and have paper applications available you can either fill out and leave with them or take home to complete and submit.

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