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some members of our campus community are going on walks these days. Perhaps we'll get a new student group organized for just this purpose. In the meantime, those of us that are headed out on camino this

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june are going on walks, practice training for camino . Training walks so that we can ascertain, how does it feel to walk this many miles? How did my boots feel? And pretty soon, how

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does the weight of my backpack feel? Am I strong enough? More to the point? How is the heart walking for heart health? Heart health, endurance, anaerobic capacity, aerobic threshold, diastolic,

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systolic functions. How is your heart health? It's a Lenten question. We can let it be our initial Lenten question this year. How is your heart health? How is your heart in God? What

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is your heart full of these days? Where your treasure is? Says jesus, there your heart will be also. What is your heart Treasuring these days ? Is there room for God? Do you?

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As ST Anthony puts it let dislike dominate your heart . Is it acted out through resentment and jealousy, lust, Greed, Desire for revenge, rivalries. Does your heart harbor a persistent general feeling of discontent

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? These are some expressions of an unhealthy heart. Is your heart full of bitterness? Why do so ? And so not understand me? Hurt me, reject me not pay attention to me. We brewed

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about others successes. We brewed about our own loneliness . We brewed about our failures. This is not heart health Treasuring becomes contorted with diseased per severance, repetitious, lingering over poisonous memories and vain imaginations.

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Hearts unhealthy are also those turned in on themselves. Hearts unhealthy are the definition of sin, contorted, estranged, disintegrated, fragmented, mutilating the very life given by God. This is not heart health.

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This distortion is from of old. No wonder the prophet confronts his people and directed rend your hearts rending to be done. He summons everyone to repentance below the trumpet sanctify a fast call. A solemn assembly

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assembled, the age that gather the Children, even the infants at brest. He called the whole people to rend their hearts to repent of their sins rending to be done. This is for us today.

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We surely need heart rending these days over every manner of evil that grasps us, every manner of evil that we perpetuate and perpetrate our own rending. Each one of us that rending. We can only name

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in secret before the father. Our rending as classy as called out People of God who do not follow God's ways rand. This is the day to rend these ashes today. Whether you retain them all day

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long or not. Your discernment these ashes today announced that we acknowledge we need to rend our hearts before God before God's beloved creation. That we are not living out the reconciled life. We are not yet

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living as the ones who have been made new create in me a clean heart. Oh, God says the psalmist renew a right spirit within me. In some communities, this psalm a daily som several times

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a day, psalm a broken and contrite heart of God that will not despise and the rending of heart means we know we know and we are sorry for how we have offended. There is contrition in our

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heart. We regret, we are sorrowful. How is your heart in God? What is your heart Treasuring these days? Are you living as the ones who are treasured in every chamber of your life,

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as a part of God's treasured creation? Your heart in God, beating in unison, My spouse and I stayed with some monks this past summer. The silence they keep is so lives. It's near impossible

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to avoid God when among them near impossible to avoid assessing all that is taking up room in my heart so obvious that my heart is constricted. Instead, these monks teach us to pray, to dwell in

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the deep heart. They teach prayer of the heart to round out the heart, Rounding out and overflowing with the love of God. The heart rounding out and holding union with God, Union, union with

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the entire world. A big heart around it, out in God's heart rending for God. Contrite for God, rounded out in love for God, all creation, content and rounded heart health so that we

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are heart strong, ready to spring to action like a sprinter, ready to spring. For we have first pondered God in our heart, welcome to lent 40 days for sifting the treasures of your heart classically

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through prayer and fasting and alms, giving you discern 40 days. How will you sift 40 days? Our Lenten pilgrimage from ashes of repentance to paschal renewal in the waters of baptism, 40 days of our

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slow and sustained efforts to rediscover and recover what we are made through those baptismal waters of death and resurrection , treasured ones of God. Oh, how you are loved! Now is the acceptable time? Now

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is the day of salvation return to God with all