We have had a very meaningful Lenten season this year at St Jude. It has been wonderful having good attendance at our weekend Masses and daily Masses. We have had three stations of the cross each week on Fridays in English and on Sunday in Spanish, with great attendance as well. We had a great turnout at Friday evening fish fries. We are very thankful for the Knights of Columbus and their dedication to serving our parish at the Lenten fish fries.
The readings this weekend address God’s grace in different ways. We have been hearing about repentance, forgiveness, conversion, and new life in our readings at the Sunday Masses this season of Lent. However, without God’s grace, these things are not possible on our journey of faith. In our Gospel today, we see God’s grace at work in Jesus' encounter with the woman whom the Pharisees and the scribes accuse of adultery. We see God’s grace at work in the life of St Paul in our second reading, of the testimony of faith that he gives, how he was a member of the crowd that stoned Stephen, to become one of the main evangelizers in the Early Church after his conversion to the Way of Jesus.
We see God’s grace at work in the synodal process that has been taking place in our Diocese and throughout the world. Early in the week, Bishop Kopeck came to St Jude to listen to members of the Hispanic community in the Jackson area, to hear their voices and their perspective. We had different synodal sessions in the month of February here at St Jude in which some of our parishioners participated. Bishop Kopacz will be having ten different regional listening sessions in our Diocese over several weeks, listening to the voices of the people. As we continue our Lenten journey, may we be open to God’s grace working in our lives.
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