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Build up others this Lent with your thoughts on the Sunday Mass readings and meditation. Three questions for reflection and discussion will be offered for each of the six Sundays during Lent. Please pray through the questions and share your insights or what the Lord spoke to you in the comments area below. Your words will inspire others in The Word Among Us community and encourage them during this grace-filled season.
Meditation & Questions on Psalm 51:3-4,12-15
Have mercy on me, God, in your goodness; in your abundant compassion… .
We’re only two weeks away from Easter, so now is a good time to ask what kind of fruit our observance of Lent has borne. One way to tell is to see if this passage from Psalm 51 means more to you today than it did when you prayed it on Ash Wednesday. For at the heart of Lent is the promise that each of us can come in touch with the amazing, super-abundant compassion of our God.
It can be so hard for us to believe—in our natural, fallen minds, that is—that God is as good as the Bible says he is. But it is true: When we come to him in humble surrender, he…
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