As we write this article it is the middle of Lent, a time of reflection, repentance and preparation. How have you prepared?

Brothers and sisters: Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all the dough? Clear out the old yeast, so that you may become a fresh batch of dough, inasmuch as you are unleavened. For our paschal lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed. Therefore, let us celebrate the feast, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (1 Cor 5:6b-8)

As you receive this article we are entering into holy week which is a week that takes us through the darkest of days as we wait in the hope of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The days of this week in particular take us through many phases of our human emotions and is representative of the many seasons we experience over our lifetimes. Perhaps for you it will be a time of deep repentance and forgiveness, or a time to offer forgiveness to someone in your life.

Peter approached Jesus and asked him, “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus answered, “I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times. (Matthew 18)

Perhaps it will be an opportunity for renewed or restored hope for you. Or perhaps it will be a time of new life entering your family through healing or birth.

There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens. (Ecclesiastes 3:1)

But for others of you it may be a time of sickness or death of a loved one where our faith offers us the hope of Jesus Christ.

Not only that, but we even boast of our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance, and endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope, and hope does not disappoint because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the holy Spirit that has been given to us. (Romans 5: 3-5)

Whatever season life has you in right now, we pray that you remain in the hope of the Lord. For in him we rejoice and have the life, love and hope that only He can give. May God bless each of you in these holiest of days.

Your sister & brother in Christ,
Justine & Bill Bojan
Lay Directors, Twin Cities Cursillo