2025 Boston Mission Trip – Report to the Parishes Take this journey with us – As the bus pulled up, a sense of quiet and anxiety surrounded us as we prepared for our journey to Boston. We arrived at Hillside Community Church in Medford, unloaded our belongings and got right to work. Each evening, we reflected on our day, the high and low points of the day,

Contrition, Forgiveness & Mercy leads to Action, which Produces Conversion and Transformation The Third Sunday of Lent calls us to understand contrition, which is built upon repentance, forgiveness and mercy that lead us to a conversion of heart and a transformation of life.

Lent is a season for the conversion of the human heart; to place our hearts of a trajectory toward the Will of God. This conversion of heart is certainly a time of reflection, of penance and of almsgiving—yes; but, it is also a time of action, or movement toward the Good of the God. A time to see with eyes of the faith God’s Will for us, and then to put that action into Habitus, as St. Thomas Aquinas would say, practice.

During Lent, Catholics in the USA abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and on all Fridays of Lent. They fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. To abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and all the Fridays of Lent means not to eat meat on those days. It does not intend the omission of eggs or dairy products. CLICK FOR MORE DETAILS...