Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent

"Lost Home on Perelli Drive #21" by James W. Bailey

Evil Digital Photography

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

Readings for Mass

First Reading: Deuteronomy 4:1, 5-9

Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 147:12-13, 15-16, 19-20

Gospel: Matthew 5:17-19

From Ash Wednesday by James W. Bailey

Taking over the abandoned fortress of your life...you discover the absolute isolation of your existence...To occupy that solitary outpost...is to live in the knowledge of personal survival...Surviving is taking your life back from your refusal to live...Once you take over your own life...you take back everything that was taken from you...Taking it back...you give it to yourself...When your life is truly yours...no one will ever be able to take it from you.