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Director's Message

Fourth Sunday in Lent
1 Samuel 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a • Ephesians 5:8-14 • John 9:1-4

Brothers,


“Working together, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For he says: “In an acceptable time* I heard you, and on the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is a very acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. We cause no one to stumble in anything, in order that no fault may be found with our ministry; on the contrary, in everything we commend ourselves as ministers of God, through much endurance,  in afflictions, hardships, constraints,beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, vigils, fasts  by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, in a holy spirit, in unfeigned love, in truthful speech, in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness at the right and at the left; through glory and dishonor, insult and praise. We are treated as deceivers and yet are truthful; as unrecognized and yet acknowledged; as dying and behold we live; as chastised and yet not put to death; as sorrowful yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing and yet possessing all things.
                                                                                                                                                                                                    2 Cor 6:1-10

In Christ the Servant + Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
Receive + Believe + Teach + Practice

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