Daily Prayer & Reflection

Lent is a time for transformation. That is easy to say, but very hard to do! We can page through the entire Old Testament and find thousands of years filled with stories of calling, change, decline, and rebirth of people called by God Himself and only have to look at recent events in our world today to ask, "What is this all about?" "How do I do better than all of history?" We look at the life of Jesus himself, entering our world at a time of deep crises and hard living. Jesus was a savior sent from HIs Father to help us to 'get it straight', but haven't we fallen into the same patterns for the last few thousand years ourselves?

With an awareness that no human being is ever perfect, we are called to change, to transformation within each and every one of us, throughout our entire lives. Transformation never ends. It is born each day through the processes of our lives: the maturing of our moral and social awarenesses, the attention to our relationship with our God, and the willingness to participate in our world, in our time and place, as who we are called to be children of an enormously generous and loving God who never tires of giving us another chance.  Allis gift to us and All is meant to be used to become more worthy of all that we receive and will be called to account for using when this earthly life is done. 

We are only custodians, not owners, of our very selves so how do we channel the goodness and kindness and imitation of the love we have received from God? With Jesus as our model, there are no limits to what we can become but the choice is ours, the transformation is ours to do, day by day, to make ourselves carriers of the love of God to all we meet In this life, in this world, and in this time.

Let us pray together, for one another and for ourselves, and work toward right relationships with all through transforming ourselves into active disciples, promoting peace and forgiveness and love wherever we are, no matter what! Just as Jesus did. This transformation requires a high level of excellence in our daily lives. May we use our charism theme this year to become better versions of ourselves and find inner peace and joy in what we become!

May we all join together as our Catholic High Community this Lenten season and pray and work for a world of peace and justice, a world of care for those in need and for the forgotten and abandoned. St. Francis and St. Clare, pray for us!