Today we celebrate this final Sunday of Ordinary Time before the start of the sacred Lenten season. It is my fervent hope that we will use these days which lay ahead to further prepare ourself for this season of penance.
Today we also celebrate the Rite of Sending where those who have been preparing to be received into the Church at Easter will sign a book which will be received by Bishop Stika next weekend at the Cathedral of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.
With that may we continue to prepare ourself for what now lies ahead. From our Gospel we were instructed: “So be perfect, just as your Heavenly Father is perfect.” It is through those Lenten practices of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that we further prefect ourself to be more like Christ.
May we now pray for these individuals who will soon enter into the waters of baptism at Easter and be received into the life of the Church during that most holy of nights.
