Lenten Reflections

Here are some thoughts that I always return to for Lent:


       Then Jesus told His disciples, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what does it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life?”

-          Matthew 16:24-26

“An immortal soul is beyond all price. There is no trouble too great, no humiliation too deep, no suffering too severe, no love too strong, no labor too hard, no expense too large, but that it is worth it, if it is spent in the effort to win a soul for God.”

-          Author Unknown


From my friend, Brother Shawn:


Lent is a season that calls us:

• to fast from discontent and to feast on gratitude;
  to fast from anger and to feast on patience;
  to fast from bitterness and to feast on forgiveness;
  to fast from self-concern and to feast on compassion;
  

  The dying words of Jeanne d"Arc: "Jesus! Jesus!"

  Mother Teresa: "All for Jesus!"

  St. Ignatius: The greatest act of Love is to yearn that a person possess Christ, and to lead that person to Him."

  His Love and Power to all of you today... - Peace, Doug +