The Parable of The Fig Tree: The season of Lent is a perfect time to reflect on how we spend our time. Do we give first priority to God, tending to our spiritual growth and sacramental life with diligence?

Do we give next priority to our loved ones, focusing intentionally on them each day without distractions from phones, screens, or thoughts of work? If not, now is the moment to repent of our waste of time or of misplaced priorities on our use of time. God is merciful but just. Let’s turn to Him and ask Him to make our lives fruitful while we still have time to do so.

Jesus offers the parable of the fig tree to further illustrate this truth. The owner of the orchard came searching for fruit on a fig tree he had planted in his orchard. Finding no fruit on the tree after three years, he told the gardener to cut it down. But the gardener intercedes and asks for one more year to cultivate and fertilize the tree in hopes it would bear fruit in the future. The fig tree was not dying; it simply wasn’t doing much of anything at all. Can this be said of us and our lives as well?

The point He is making is that life is precious and the gift of time on this earth is just that — a gift. None of us knows how much time will be granted to us, so we must use this gift intentionally to glorify God and serve our neighbor.

Stations of the Cross are on Fridays: After the 9AM Morning Mass and also at 3:30PM before the K of C 4PM Fish Fry.

Hope Does Not Disappoint
God appoints Moses to go and bring his message to his people in Egypt who have been held in slavery by a people with whom they once had equality. What is important for us to note in the account is not the fact that the bush was unharmed or that Moses was tending a flock, but that the Lord has seen the plight of his people and has resolved to free them from that plight.

Today many people are oppressed by their own false gods and habits but the Lord still wants them to be freed and so we have this season of Lent to help us identify our false gods and to accept God’s help in freeing ourselves from the things which oppress us. St Paul reminds us of this in the second reading.

In the gospel we see Jesus calling the people to repentance. If the people repent then they will have life but if not they will perish.

The choice placed before us today is quite clear: if we accept the Lord’s love and compassion and turn away from our false gods which lead us into sin then we will be saved and receive eternal life, but if not then, while we may live this life according to our own rules, we will not enter the kingdom in the next life.

Michael Poirier will lead us in our Blessed Sacrament Parish Lenten Mission From March 24 through 26

Pray for our Catechumens and Candidates receiving their First OCIA Scrutiny today.

Fr. Kilian, Fr. Samuel, our Deacons and our Parish Staff and Volunteers.

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