When: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 12:00 AM to Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12:00 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).
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Words of Jesus
You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world… When you have lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority but speak thus as the Father taught me. And he who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what is pleasing to him.
John 8:23, 28-29
It is clear through unlearned men that the cross was persuasive; in fact, it persuaded the whole world.
— St. John Chrysostom
Abba, Father, Lord God, this day I missed You, unable to start my day with You, the entire day I questioned my priorities, I blamed others, I closed my eyes and shuck my head at my weak state and lack of discipline. Questioning of I was again taking advantage of Your love and Jesus' passion. For who am I to expect anything more then what I get. After all I have You, I know that Jesus' suffered and was crucified for me. So what is wrong with me. How can these contradictions exist. I may never know while under the sun, but this I know I must turn to You. For only in You do I feel complete, only with You can I be and do that which is righteous, and only through You can I love and forgive unconditional; for this I know is why I must seek You and ask that You continue to mold me in the image of Jesus through the Holy Spirit that I know lives within me. For I know You planted the need for You in my heart at conception, You became the Holy Spirit at baptism, and You awakened me to You through Jesus in the Holy Spirit and all my blessings. So what else can I do, but serve You. Help me provide me the opportunities to do so now. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
Numbers 21:4-9<http://www.ewtn.com/vbible/search.asp?abbr=Num&ch=21&bv1=4&ev1=9>
4 From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the people became impatient on the way. 5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food." 6 Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. 7 And the people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you; pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people. 8 And the LORD said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and every one who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live." 9 So Moses made a bronze serpent, and set it on a pole; and if a serpent bit any man, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.
Psalm 102, 2-3, 16-21<http://www.ewtn.com/vbible/search.asp?abbr=Ps&ch=102&bv1=2&ev1=3&bv2=16&ev2=21>
2 Do not hide thy face from me in the day of my distress! Incline thy ear to me; answer me speedily in the day when I call! 3 For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace. 16 For the LORD will build up Zion, he will appear in his glory; 17 he will regard the prayer of the destitute, and will not despise their supplication. 18 Let this be recorded for a generation to come, so that a people yet unborn may praise the LORD: 19 that he looked down from his holy height, from heaven the LORD looked at the earth, 20 to hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die; 21 that men may declare in Zion the name of the LORD, and in Jerusalem his praise,
John 8:21-30<http://www.ewtn.com/vbible/search.asp?abbr=John&ch=8&bv1=21&ev1=30>
21 Again he said to them, "I go away, and you will seek me and die in your sin; where I am going, you cannot come." 22 Then said the Jews, "Will he kill himself, since he says, `Where I am going, you cannot come'?" 23 He said to them, "You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world. 24 I told you that you would die in your sins, for you will die in your sins unless you believe that I am he." 25 They said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "Even what I have told you from the beginning. 26 I have much to say about you and much to judge; but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him." 27 They did not understand that he spoke to them of the Father. 28 So Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority but speak thus as the Father taught me. 29 And he who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what is pleasing to him." 30 As he spoke thus, many believed in him.
Lenten Reflections<http://origin.ewtn.com/faith/lent/>
Pope Benedict XVI Encyclical Letter<http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20071130_spe-salvi_en.html>
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