Winter at last

Wow! It's really winter now! The rain is not heavy but contnues to pour; with occassional thunder. But it's cold. It's about 2 degrees now but the wind, which is strong, is minus 1 degree!!! I was at the upper chapel of the Condemnation to say Mass this afternoon and it was freezing cold in there! And with all this rain, I expect a blackout sometime this evening. It always happens after a rain. Got my candles and torches ready.

The first reading for Mass from Isaiah was very appropriate for today. It not only talks about the true type of fasting God wants (feed the hungry, clothe the naked, home the homeless - all social changing actions; so remember that! Lent means soul-changing and social changing); but what is more important, it assures us that we are all people sincerely looking for God and struggling to keep His Laws. But in our weakness we slip up, we don't bring the consequence of our search into our daily practical lives of buying and selling, eating and drinking. Lent is meant to remind us that faith touches every facet of our lives, and we must live it at all occassions.