{"id":4222,"date":"2015-02-18T21:17:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T02:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/kathrynlopez\/?p=4222"},"modified":"2015-02-18T21:17:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T02:17:35","slug":"ash-wednesday-in-homilytweet-seven-that-caught-my-eye-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kathrynlopez\/2015\/02\/ash-wednesday-in-homilytweet-seven-that-caught-my-eye-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Ash Wednesday in #HomilyTweet &#8212; Seven that Caught My Eye Today"},"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>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.va\/en\/news\/pope-francis-ash-wednesday-homily\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pope Francis<\/a>: Only the Lord can save from the scourge, and so there is need of supplication, with prayer and fasting, each confessing his sin.<\/p>\n<p>2. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>\"Let's get cracking, Lent has begun!\" \u2013 Cardinal Se\u00e1n O\"Malley OFM Cap. homily given today during Ash Wednesday\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/UrAu7s9wsE\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/UrAu7s9wsE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Archdio. of Boston (@bostoncatholic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bostoncatholic\/status\/568117261673869312\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">February 18, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>3. <a href=\"https:\/\/fatherstevegrunow.wordpress.com\/2015\/02\/16\/ash-wednesday-february-18th-2015\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@FrSteveGrunow<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The practices of Lent are meant to prepare Christians for worship- to prepare the faithful to attend Mass and to do so with a renewed sense of appreciation, reverence and understanding.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>4. From <a href=\"http:\/\/lawrenceop.tumblr.com\/post\/78637187146\/homily-for-ash-wednesday-joel-2-12-18-ps-50-2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@LawrenceOP<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>in Lent, we are summoned together to train and take up arms against the Devil. How? St Peter put it this way: \u201cBe sober, be vigilant. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking some one to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith\u201d (1 Pt 5:8f). Again the language is military \u2013 we\u2019re to be vigilant, keeping watch, keeping guard soberly and attentively, and we\u2019re to put on the armour of our faith. This means that we\u2019re to place our trust in God, relying always on his goodness, mercy and love. With such firm faith in God as our armour, we can then take up our weapons of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. So that we know who our fellow soldiers are in this military campaign, we can look to the sign of the ashen Cross on the forehead; a sign of Christ\u2019s victory over death and sin. So, my fellow Christian soldiers, let us take up our battle station \u2013 this, our Lenten fast. And let us shame the Devil and, with Christ\u2019s grace, help, and strength, defeat sin and the Evil One.  Let combat commence!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>5. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>The choice for us is clear. Embrace the cross or embrace the ash. Here's my homily for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AshWednesday?src=hash\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#AshWednesday<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/EJCL9GGj7P\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/EJCL9GGj7P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fr James Bradley (@FrJamesBradley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrJamesBradley\/status\/568036052709085185\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">February 18, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>6. <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicpreaching.com\/a-marian-lent-ash-wednesday-february-18-2015\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fr. Roger Landry from Rome (why did I not go on this pilgrimage??) on a Marian Lent<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2022\tThe first Lenten practice is prayer. Jesus says, \u201cWhen you pray\u2026,\u201d which obviously shows the expectation that we will be praying along the journey. Mary is the the paragon of prayer and teacher of prayer. She shows us personal prayer in the Annunciation, in her Magnificat, and at Calvary. She shows us intercessory prayer at Cana. She shows us how to pray the Stations, as she accompanied her Son with a contemplative heart all along the journey. She shows us the Prayer of the Mass, as she received within herself from the hands of St. John the same Jesus in Holy Communion that she had received in her womb by the power of the Holy Spirit. She wants to help us advance on the pilgrimage of prayer.<br>\n\u2022\tThe second practice is fasting. Jesus says, \u201cWhen you fast\u2026.\u201d The purpose of fasting is to learn how to hunger for what God hungers. Mary does. In her Magnificat, she asserted that God \u2018fills the hungry with good things.\u201d She was filled with good things because she hungered, and she teaches us how to open ourselves up to those good things by our hunger. Jesus had said, \u201cBlessed are those who hunger and thirst for holiness,\u201d and she hungered for this sanctity with all her being, to be right with God. She wants us to have that same beatitude! When we fast, we become much more attentive to others\u2019 needs and that\u2019s what she shows us in Cana. She recognized when others had run out because she thought more about what they\u2019d need than getting her own wine glass full. She wants to help us share that same hunger.<br>\n\u2022\tThe third practice is almsgiving. Jesus says, \u201cWhen you give alms\u2026\u201d Jesus wants to help us to learn how to love others as he loved us, holding nothing back. In this, Mary is again exemplary, giving her entire self, her entire life to God and then for us and our salvation.  She continues to giver herself, her prayers, her intercession. The Christian pilgrimage of Lent is the pilgrimage of a Good Samaritan crossing the road to care for others.<br>\n\u2022\tWe finish with what we\u2019re about to receive, ashes. There are two sayings that a priest can say as he imposes the ashes. The first is \u201cRemember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.\u201d This is a saying that refers to the Body but we need to remember at the same time that we\u2019re more than dust. God breathed into us a soul. And Mary shows us how to live in such a way that that soul magnifies the Lord. The second phrase is \u201cRepent and believe in the Gospel.\u201d Repent means to turn around our mind to think with the Lord and no one thinks in greater harmony with God\u2019s plans than Mary. Know one believes more firmly than she. Mary is praying for us to receive the ashes well, so that we may truly embrace the way of penance and faith, journeying with her along the path of the Christian life following and loving God with our whole heart, magnifying his mercy, seizing the gift of time, and coming to that place that Christ won for us by his prayer, fasting and almsgiving, where Mary now rejoices in the eternal Easter.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>7. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Embrace God's offer of grace. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/homilytweet?src=hash\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#homilytweet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kathryn Jean Lopez (@kathrynlopez) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kathrynlopez\/status\/568107020227895296\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">February 18, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Pope Francis: Only the Lord can save from the scourge, and so there is need of supplication, with prayer and fasting, each confessing his sin. 2. &#8220;Let&#8217;s get cracking, Lent has begun!&#8221; \u2013 Cardinal Se\u00e1n O&#8221;Malley OFM Cap. homily given today during Ash Wednesday\u2026 http:\/\/t.co\/UrAu7s9wsE \u2014 Archdio. of Boston (@bostoncatholic) February 18, 2015 3. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":536,"featured_media":4223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ash Wednesday in #HomilyTweet -- Seven that Caught My Eye Today<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"1. 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