Friday, February 27, 2026
 

The Third Station of the Cross
Jesus Falls for the First Time

Take a moment to sit with the image, from Audrey Frank Anastasi’s stunning Stations of the Cross.

Thursday, February 26, 2026

"When we’re confronted with our own weakness during Lent, the temptation is to get angry and frustrated. “What a bad person I am!” But that’s the wrong lesson."

In fact, it’s the opposite:

"God is calling us to be patient and to see ourselves as he does, with unconditional love."

Wednesday, February 25

“I thought by now I’d have it figured out -
how not to make the easy things so hard to do…
I guess all I’m saying is,
forgive me if I don’t know what I’m doing. 
I’m still learning to be human.”

Cody Johnson

Aren’t we all? 

During this Lent, maybe we can allow Jesus' humanity to show us how.
 

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

The Second Station of the Cross
Jesus carries His Cross

We often hear the phrase “carry the cross” or “it’s my cross to bear” - as “the cross” has become a symbol for some form of suffering or pain to be endured.

Some might argue that this analogy is only apt if there is some kind of reward at the end of the suffering. Some tangible benefit.

Monday, February 23

“Lent is a time in which the Church, guided by a sense of maternal care, invites us to place the mystery of God back in the center of our lives.”

Pope Leo XIV, Message for Lent, 2026
 

What is the “center” of my schedule?

Do I build my days around work obligations? Around pickup or drop off for my children? Around my “to do list”?

What would it look like to place the mystery of God at the center of my schedule today?

Sunday, February 22, 2026
 

A Mass Moment

Today at mass, before the Gospel, we will do something very simple. We’ve all done it a thousand times, often without thinking. It takes less than two seconds.

Listening for the Gospel - A small sign of the cross: on our forehead, on our lips, and on our heart.

Today, pick one of those to talk with God about. For example:

Saturday, February 21, 2026

“A large crowd of tax collectors and others were at table with them. The Pharasees and their scribes complained to his disciples, saying, ‘What do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?’”

Normally I would have saved this one for April 15th, but alas, tax day does not fall during Lent this year. This Gospel makes me chuckle, because our disdain for taxes apparently stretches back millenia. But I digress…

Jesus’s message in today’s gospel is clear: Nobody is unwelcome at Christ’s table. 

Friday, February 20, 2026

The First Station of the Cross
Jesus is Condemned to Death

Matthew 27:26

How absolutely awful does it feel to be accused of something you didn’t do? How angry does that make you?!

Some of the other 13 stations of the cross feel very far from our lived experience. I mean, who wears crowns of thorns anymore?

But this one you might be able to identify with. That feeling of “I didn’t do that! I would never do that!”, but somebody is convinced that you did.

Thursday, February 19, 2026

Our sins are in the hands of God; those merciful hands, those hands 'wounded' by love. It was not by chance that Jesus willed to preserve the wounds in his hands to enable us to know and feel his mercy."

Homily of Pope Francis 
Vatican Basilica, Altar of the Chair
Monday, 4 November 2013

Jesus's hands had wounds; ours do too.

Place yourself in the merciful hands of God. 

If you need help holding something, ask the Lord to help.

‘Beware of practising your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven.

Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Matthew 6: 1, 5-6

Take this literally.