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There was a very capable nurse in the pediatric ward, who knew just how to put children at ease and calm their fears. Before listening to the little one’s chest, she would plug the stethoscope into their small ears to let them listen to their own hearts. Their eyes would always light up.
But she never got a response equal to that of four-year-old David. David plugged the stethoscope into his ears while she placed the disc over his heart. “Listen,” she said. “What do you suppose that noise is?” David thought and thought very hard as he listened to the mysterious, thump, thump, thump, deep inside his chest. Then his face broke into a big smile, “I know what it is,” he said. “It's Jesus knocking!”
What a wise little boy. Many adults never figure out that very simple truth. The Lord is knocking within us and saying open up, let me in. For some folks, there's an interval of many decades between death and burial for they have died within, years earlier. That's not what the Lord wants for us. He's calling us back to life just as he called out to Lazarus who is tied up and rotting in the tomb.
“Come out!” the Lord says to us. Let go of your fears. Quiet your anger. Forget your grievances. All of these are dead ideas. They tie you up and make you rot from within. “Step out into my light. Let me help you,” says the Lord. So, now relax in the Lord. Like Lazarus, break out of that tomb you live in. Start to enjoy the life God has always intended and desires for you. The Lord keeps knocking…thump, thump, thump!
Fr. Don
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OUR LENTEN JOURNEY CONTINUES
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Fish Fry
- Last Lenten Fish Fry Tonight 5pm-7pm
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Stations of the Cross
- Tonight 7pm
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Penance Service
- Joint Communal Penance Service
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At St. Bernadette Church, Monday, March 27th at 7pm
- Random Acts
- Cards promoting acts of kindness available at church entrances.
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Food Collection
- Lenten Collection this week will be cereal.
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Egg Hunt
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Good Shepherd Egg Hunt Sunday [ages 3-10yrs old], April 2nd 5pm-7pm
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