March Faith at Home • Young Adult retreat scheduled for March 4

The Lenten Season invites us to take a step back and focus on ways we can spend our time intentionally. For a lot of us with bustling families, it’s not always easy to find time to sit down around the dining room table and enjoy a meal together; it’s more like packed meals or a drive-thru dinner in the car between pick-ups.

Those days are part of life for many of us, but I’m encouraging a shift in this routine during Lent. As Catholics, we abstain from eating meat on Fridays during Lent. We use this as an active sacrifice we can make each week. It also gives us the opportunity for solidarity.

In Jesus’ time, eating meat was a luxury only for those who could afford it and many times it was only eaten during big celebrations. In solidarity with the poor and vulnerable, and in the memory of Good Friday and Jesus’ ultimate sacrifice for us, we abstain from meat.

We are called to eat a simple meal on Fridays; it’s a time to connect over an easy meal that can be prepared and enjoyed by the whole family. Over the next few weeks, make family dinner a priority. You can use this time to model for your family that it’s okay to slow down and spend intentional time with the people you love the most.

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Young adults ages 18 to 39 in the Diocese of Trenton are invited to attend a day-long young adults retreat on March 4 beginning at 10 a.m. in St. Raphael Church, 3500 S. Broad St., Hamilton.

This year’s retreat theme is “Given: Become What You Receive.” Sponsored by the diocesan Department of Youth and Young Adult Ministries, the annual retreat will include reflections by keynote speaker, musician and evangelist Gerald “Gez” Ford, and will conclude with the celebration of Mass.

For more information and to register for the event click HERE