Saturday of the Second Week of Lent

"Lost Home on Perelli Drive #17" by James W. Bailey

Evil Digital Photography

Perelli Drive - An East New Orleans Lenten Season Memorial Art Project

Saint Joseph, Husband of Mary - Solemnity

Readings for Mass

First Reading: Second Samuel 7:4-5, 12-14, 16

Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 89:2-3, 4-5, 27, 29

Second Reading: Romans 4:13, 16-18, 22

Gospel: Matthew 1:16, 18-21, 24, or Luke 2:41-51

From Ash Wednesday by James W. Bailey

Owning your life you become the slave of your master...the property of your conscience...To run away from the plantation of your freedom...is to imprison yourself to a life of free choice...The more freedom you choose...the more your choices own you...And the more your choices own you...the more comfortable you become...as a liberated slave to them.