Monday in the Third Week of Lent

Why are you so full of heaviness, O my soul? * and why are you so disquieted within me? Put your trust in God; * for I will yet give thanks to him, who is the help of my countenance, and my God.

It was the worst of times, it was the…. No, it was the worst of times. Permit me to be self-indulgent.

While packing for my recent move from rectory to private home, I found an envelope that had been placed in the back of a storage file for twenty years. I had forgotten about it. It was filled with “thank you” cards from a former parish that, unusually, …