7th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Dear Parishioners,

Today’s Gospel is again from the Sermon on the Plains where Jesus continues to call people to discipleship and instructs them on what is required and expected of His followers. Love your enemies, Jesus tells us, challenging society’s values and even common sense. Why should we love those who have hurt us? Well, one of the greatest gifts we can give is our mercy. We may feel that our enemy doesn’t deserve our mercy, but it may help to realize that it is God’s mercy that we extend—that it is God’s mercy that counts. As Jesus tells us in the Gospel, “Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.”

Jesus’ statement of God’s mercy is truly a prelude to the season of Lent. In two weeks, the Church will begin the season of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Perhaps one of the ways that we can enter in the Lenten season is to reflect on how each one of us can “be merciful as the Father in Heaven is merciful.”

The second collection this weekend is for the Building Maintenance Fund.

The Lenten schedule flyer is in this weeks bulletin.

Have a Blessed Week!