Sunday's Homily Excerpt -

Let us use the season of Lent with thoughtfulness and employ its tools with patience. It is not easy to slow ourselves down. But if we employ FASTING not as a burden and a legality, but as a way to order our lives not only towards the enjoyment of passing pleasures and the sustenance of our temporary existence, but as a way to hone our desire for the Kingdom of God and to feed the longing of our hearts with with good things. Let us employ prayer as the Church offers it to us in the liturgical cycle of Lent and Holy Week. Let us humble ourselves, quiet ourselves, and remember the saving work of Christ for our sakes when we at last come to the days of Holy Week. And let us bring PRAYER into our daily lives at home by dialing back the distractions of social media, 24/7 news, and endless work, and with our children contemplate the good things of God and be thankful for what He gives us. And let us employ what the Church calls ALSMGIVING. This is to strive to pay attention with sincerity to other people, the members of our own family to be sure, but also to our neighbor, to those who are suffering, and even to those we deem our enemy; to show them mercy and grace and love, with our time, our effort, and our money. None of this is easy and the effort as we know is sustained. But God will give us strength if we ask. He will show us we each of us needs to do if we will listen. Let us take up all these days and walk this spiritual journey together and encourage one another. Enjoy the lengthening days. Look forward to Easter that we may learn to look forward even more the to the life of the world to come.” - Fr. Marc Dunaway, February 22, 2026-