Our faith journey is to try and clarify where our focus is. Lent is an attempt to try and focus our energies, to focus our lives. We come at this season as people who know sin. We do know sin. It’s not just a past reality for us; it’s something we struggle with every day. We struggle to make good choices. We struggle to do what’s going to be the most loving thing possible, and yet we do fail, because our focus goes out of whack. When we’re sinning, our focus, our center, cannot be Christ. It’s not possible.
So, we need to refocus, recenter. Lent is our time to recenter, to put ourselves back in that place where what we decide comes from the depths of our hearts where Christ dwells in us, so that we know the difference between the delusions of our egos and the truth of our hearts, and so that we choose rightly.
This journey is a gift, a time to walk together, to join with one another, in finding our center and letting it be the center of our lives as a community and our lives as members of that community, so that the love of Christ might fill our world.
--Fr. Patrick Michaels,
Homily, March 9, 2025
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