As we enter this beautiful season of Lent, our prayer is that your walk with Christ will be strengthened and renewed. As followers of Christ, we must continue to be more like him and allow his light to shine through us. During this time, let us also continue to pray that He will bring peace to this world, and the hearts of so many who need to feel his unconditional love.
Lenten is a season of celebration, it’s a season of love, and it’s a season of new beginning. It is a blessing to gather together for another year with our St. Anastasia church family to welcome the Lenten season!
ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPCOMING EVENTS
Mass and Stations of the Cross will be offered on Wednesdays and Fridays during the Lenten season with a simple meal to follow.
On Wednesdays, Into His Likeness will be offered and on Fridays, Seven Deadly Sins/Seven Lively Virtues will be offered for an Adult Education opportunity after Mass. Descriptions are found below.
Into His Likeness
In the ancient disciple-rabbi relationship, the disciple would follow the rabbi so closely that he would be covered in the dust kicked up from his rabbi’s feet. Thousands of years later, though we walk on roads of pavement and not dust, we are still called to be disciples—to follow our Rabbi, Jesus Christ, so closely that we are covered with his life, changed, and made new.
But this transformation in Christ doesn’t happen overnight. In this series, Edward Sri reminds us of two basic truths: First, (A) The truth of our human condition: we are full of many weaknesses, wounds, and sins. And second, (B) The truth of our high calling—we are called to be perfected in God’s love and transformed in Christ. Living as a disciple is all about the process of getting from A to B.
Seven Deadly Sins
Join Bishop Robert Barron for this engaging presentation concerning the seven deadly sins, those great spiritual blocks that inhibit our flourishing in relationship with God and one another. Based on Dante’s writings, the seven deadly sins correspond to the seven stories of Dante’s Mt. Purgatory. Pride, envy, anger, sloth, gluttony, avarice and lust are all presented as patterns of dysfunction within us that lead to unhappiness.
However, Bishop Barron shows us how to counteract these seven sinful patterns through a conscious process of opposition, which are the “seven lively virtues.” The seven lively virtues offer antidotes to each sin and help set us on the right path to healing and happiness.
We wait in hope for the Lord; he is our help and our shield. In him our hearts rejoice, for we trust in his holy name. May your unfailing love be with us, Lord, even as we put our hope in you. Psalm 33:20-22
