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My friends, Lent is certainly a time to acknowledge our sinfulness, but not to obsess about it, not to beat ourselves up over it. As St. Paul puts it, the grace of God far surpasses the sin of human beings. And so our focus this season should really be on God.  

In today’s gospel, Jesus gets even more pointed about what it takes to be a full-fledged disciple of his, and to walk the Way of the Cross with him on the Road Less Travelled. 

The bottom line of this gospel passage today is that Jesus is calling us to live by a higher moral standard than what our civil law requires or our culture preaches.

Today’s excerpt from St. Matthew’s gospel uses two images for the Church which speak to the mission Christ has entrusted to us.