Why do I only stumble upon that lost and forgotten candy bar on Ash Wednesday?  I feel like those old cartoons of the man on the desert island who starts to see his friends like a pot roast.  Even my key chain looks yummy.  We have entered into Lent, our communal retreat in preparation for Easter.  Fasting and abstinence mark Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.  No-meat Fridays, Stations of the Cross and a parish-wide faith renewal are upon us. Why…

 The gospel tells us that the magi found Christ “on entering the house.” The door to your home is a holy threshold. You can bless those who come in and go out by inscribing above the door in chalk the first two numbers of the year+C+M+B+the last two numbers of the year. Tradition tells us that the letters stand for the names of the magi: Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar. Adolph Adam points out that it may also mean “Christus mansionem…