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Catholic Crossword
21 Charged particles
24 Some kids
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25 ___ of milk and honey
26 Agenda notation
27 Hopper
28 Sound equipment
29 Papal letter signed by the Pope’s secretary and sealed with the Pope’s ring
31 Ales
32 Saint of Orleans
33 Bone that parallels the radius
34 Hayes of “The
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We Catholics are wild about signs and symbols. We make the Sign of the Cross whenever we pray, worship, enter the church, walk through a cemetery, or even step up to the plate at a baseball game. We wear symbols of our faith on our ears and around our necks; hang them on our walls and dangle them from our rear view mirrors. We take yearlong pride in the palms we carry home from church on Palm Sunday, and we are especially careful to get that little cruciform black smudge of ashes on our foreheads at Ash Wednesday Mass.
Those ashes are the mark of our repentance. This is the sign that we intend once again, during this 40-day season of Lent, to change our lives, give up the ways of the world, and get back on track to the Kingdom of God.
“You have all gone astray like sheep,” laments St. Peter in 1 Pet. 2:25, “Now return to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.”
Sin draws us in many directions, but they all lead to death. No matter what we gain in this world—money, power, possessions, pleasure, dominance, influence, comfort, security—it all ends sooner or later. There is nothing we can take with us beyond the grave. But it is through the grave that we enter eternal life and the Kingdom of God! Jesus Christ gave up everything in this world so that He might gain everything in the world to come.
“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand,” Jesus cries out in Matthew 4:17.
You have died with Christ “and were buried with him in with Father Jan K. Schmidt
