Saturday, Second Week of Lent

Let us eat and celebrate because this son of mine was dead and has come back to life. (Luke 15:23-24)

Reflection

Salvation to all that will is nigh;
That All, which always is All everywhere,
Which cannot sin, and yet all sins must bear,
Which cannot die, yet cannot choose but die,
So, faithful Virgin, yields himself to lie
In prison, in thy womb; and though He there
Can take no sin, nor thou give, yet He’ll wear
Taken from thence, flesh, which death’s force may try.
Ere by the spheres time was created, thou
Wast in his mind, who is thy Son and Brother;
Whom thou conceiv’st, conceiv’d; yea, thou art now
Thy Maker’s maker, and thy Father’s mother;
Thou hast light in dark, and shut’st in little room
Immensity, cloistered in thy dear womb.

—John Donne

Lenten Action

Go to a chapel and say Morning Prayer. Call your parents and tell them you love them.

Prayer

Forgive my sins against the unity of your family; make me love as you loved me.