{"id":548,"date":"2006-03-01T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/churchofthemasses\/2006\/03\/create-a-clean-heart-in-me-o-god-renew-in-me-a-right-spirit-ps-51\/"},"modified":"2006-03-01T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-01T18:03:00","slug":"create-a-clean-heart-in-me-o-god-renew-in-me-a-right-spirit-ps-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/churchofthemasses\/2006\/03\/create-a-clean-heart-in-me-o-god-renew-in-me-a-right-spirit-ps-51\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Create a clean heart in me, O God. Renew in me a right spirit.&#8221; Ps 51"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Happy Lent.  (Although my mother used to say, \u201cIf you like Lent, you\u2019re doing it wrong.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, Fr. Willy Raymond will be celebrating a Mass at 7pm at Family Theater for our Hollywood RCIA program.  Afterwards, we will have a discussion about conscience and sin.<\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of the day, no drinks or food.  (sigh)  Just a great way to start this most spiritually vital season.<\/p>\n<p>All are invited.<\/p>\n<p>Every year I ask God to send me an intention to keep me motivated in my Lenten fasts and almsgiving.  This year, I am offering my ridiculous little  sacrifices for three-year old Kathleen Quinn, my friends\u2019 daughter.  Kathleen is undergoing a grueling course of treatment for leukemia.  Please do join me in praying for Kathleen, and her whole family.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Lent. (Although my mother used to say, \u201cIf you like Lent, you\u2019re doing it wrong.\u201d) Tonight, Fr. 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