As Lent begins, we continue in this Jubilee year of hope to celebrate, pray, bless, learn, inspire, and challenge.

Today's readings provide a simple reminder of the importance of our words as they relate to God's Word, made flesh in Jesus.

Abraham Lincoln said it a little differently than the sage who composed our First Reading, but it’s the same idea. Lincoln said: “It is better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak up and remove all doubt.”

Over the years, I’ve done many of the major personality tests—Myers-Briggs, Clifton Strengths, DiSC Profile—and found all of them useful.

I was an inconsistent student over the years of my formal education. I excelled in some areas and struggled in others.

Brothers and sisters, confident in God's mercy, let us let call to mind our sins, and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries

The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day.

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