The Fifth Sunday of Lent

During Lent let us improve our spirit of prayer and recollection. Let us free our minds from all that is not Jesus.

St. Teresa of Calcutta

2 Corinthians 12:7-10

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

2 Corinthians 12:7-10

First Day of Spring

[public domain]

Winter Landscape with a Glory of Angels, by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Hans Rottenhammer, 1595-1610

For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

Isaiah 61:11