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Thursday of the Third Week of Lent | Readings: Jeremiah 7:23-28; Luke 11:14-23
REFLECTION
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What I learned from my mother’s simple prayer was that the reason the priest didn’t want us at the church was because we were Black.
“All glorious is the king’s daughter as she enters, her raiment is threaded with spun gold.” (Psalm 45:14)
Following the ways of Jesus: That was how Saint Francis and his brothers were to live their lives, and they would do it by being poor like Christ; by being men of the road like Jesus and his Apostles; by preaching God’s word as Jesus did; by being brothers to one another, to others, and to all creatures; and by the penance of their lives, emptying themselves for love of him who had emptied himself for love of them.
Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent | Readings: Deuteronomy 4:1, 5-9; Matthew 5:17-19
Dumbo
World War I has just ended. Holt (Colin Farrell) has returned to his job at the circus after losing his left arm in battle. While he was away, his wife died. Since then, his daughter, Milly (Nico Parker), and son, Joe (Finley Hobbins), have been staying with kind circus performers.
Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent | Readings: Daniel 3:25,34-43; Matthew 18:21-35
UNPLANNED
Abby (Ashley Bratcher) is a junior at Texas A&M University in 2001 when she attends a volunteer fair. She signs up to help women in crisis at Planned Parenthood in Bryan, Texas, because she knows what women go through.
I am mildly obsessed with all things organizational—planners, office supplies, boxes, baskets, bins. If it can make my life more efficient or cleaner, I’m all in. The disconnect, however, comes in the execution and use of those products.
This wife and mother wanted to model her life on Dorothy Day’s. But she quickly learned that hospitality begins in the heart, not the home.
