Thus says the LORD: If you remove from your midst oppression, false accusation and malicious speech; If you bestow your bread on the hungry and satisfy the afflicted; Then light shall rise for you in the darkness, and the gloom shall become for you like midday. (Is 58:9b-14)
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/030825.cfm
What God asks of us requires a whole set of values, a whole new way of thinking. Some may call it “woke” but God calls it righteousness. May Our Lady of Lourdes intercede for Pope Francis and all the sick.
These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.
Saturday after Ash Wednesday
