Dear Parishioners,
The Season of Lent should lead us to The Season of Love. This sacred time is given to us to find new qualities in life. The world and its values are usually in contradiction with the ways of God, so we have 40 days to find our way back to the better path.
Last Sunday’s gospel showed us the beautiful conversion of the younger - prodigal - son who had to lose everything to appreciate his father’s love and goodness. Today we look at an adulterous woman, who is surrounded by people eager to punish her, but after being defended by Jesus, she has a chance to begin a new life.
Has your life been renewed this Lent? Are you closer to God through your prayer, fasting and giving alms to some less fortunate brothers? Can you feel that you really are in the process of transformation, or are you in the same place as on Ash Wednesday, March 5th?
God, who is Love is inviting us to spend time with Him, to accept his love and to share it with others. A successful Lent can be recognized by kindness, peacefulness, compassion and most of all by the profound closeness with our Heavenly Father.
I hope that our Notre Dame community will be seen by God as a very successful family when we approach The Paschal Season.
I appreciate your love and prayers,
Fr. Rafael Duda
Lent is a 40 day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that begins on
Ash Wednesday and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday. It's a period of preparation to celebrate the Lord's Resurrection at Easter. During Lent, we seek
the Lord in prayer by reading Sacred Scripture; we serve by giving alms;
and we practice self-control through fasting.
By the solemn forty days of Lent the Church unites herself each year to the mystery of Jesus in the desert.
Catechism of the Catholic Church 540