A time of Lexio devena for the discerning heart.

Saturday of the third week in Lent.

As you begin, take a deep breath and exhale slowly.

For the next few moments, surrender all the cares and concerns of this stay to the Lord.

Say slowly from your heart, Jesus, I trust in you. You take over.

Become over. Become aware that he is with you, looking upon you with love, wanting to be heard deep within your heart.

A reading from the Holy Gospel, according to Luke,

Chapter 18, verses 9 through 14. Jesus spoke the following parable to some people who prided themselves on being virtuous

and despised everyone else.

Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee, the other a tax collector.

The Pharisee stood there and said this prayer to himself. I thank you, God,

that I am not grasping, unjust, adulterous like the rest of mankind, and particularly that I am not

like this tax collector here. I fast twice a week. I pay tithes on all I get. The tax collector stood some distance away,

not daring even to raise his eyes to heaven, but he beat his breast and said,

God, be merciful to me a sinner. This man, I tell you, went home at rites with God.

The other did not.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled,

but the man who humbles himself will be exalted. What word made this passage come alive for you?

What did you sense the Lord saying to you? What did you sense the Lord an opportunity to speak to you.

Jesus spoke the following parable to some people who prided themselves on being virtuous

and despised everyone else.

Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee, the other a tax collector.

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