<!--
/* What it does: Remove spaces around the email design added by some
email clients. */
/* Beware: It can remove the padding / margin and add a background
color to the compose a reply window. */
html,
body {
Margin: 0 !important;
padding: 0 !important;
height: 100% !important;
width: 100% !important;
text-align: center;
}

/* What it does: Stops email clients resizing small text. */
* {
-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;
}

/* What is does: Centers email on Android 4.4 */
div[style*="margin: 16px 0"] {
margin:0 !important;
}

/* What it does: Stops Outlook from adding extra spacing to tables.
*/
table,
td {
mso-table-lspace: 0pt !important;
mso-table-rspace: 0pt !important;
}

/* What it does: Fixes webkit padding issue. Fix for Yahoo mail table
alignment bug. Applies table-layout to the first 2 tables then removes
for anything nested deeper. */
table {
border-spacing: 0 !important;
border-collapse: collapse !important;
table-layout: fixed !important;
Margin: 0 auto !important;
}
table table table {
table-layout: auto;
}

/* What it does: Uses a better rendering method when resizing images
in IE. */
img {
-ms-interpolation-mode:bicubic;
}

/* What it does: Overrides styles added when Yahoo's auto-senses a
link. */
.yshortcuts a {
border-bottom: none !important;
}

/* What it does: A work-around for iOS meddling in triggered links.
*/
.mobile-link footer a,
a[x-apple-data-detectors] {
color:inherit !important;
text-decoration: underline !important;
}
-->

<!--
/* What it does: Hover styles for buttons */
.button-td,
.button-a {
transition: all 100ms ease-in;
}
.button-td:hover,
.button-a:hover {
background: #555555 !important;
border-color: #555555 !important;
}

/* Media Queries */
@media screen and (max-width: 600px) {

.email-container {
width: 100% !important;
}

/* What it does: Forces elements to resize to the full width of their
container. Useful for resizing images beyond their max-width. */
.fluid,
.fluid-centered {
max-width: 100% !important;
height: auto !important;
Margin-left: auto !important;
Margin-right: auto !important;
}
/* And center justify these ones. */
.fluid-centered {
Margin-left: auto !important;
Margin-right: auto !important;
}

/* What it does: Forces table cells into full-width rows. */
.stack-column,
.stack-column-center {
display: block !important;
width: 100% !important;
max-width: 100% !important;
direction: ltr !important;
}
/* And center justify these ones. */
.stack-column-center {
text-align: center !important;
}

/* What it does: Generic utility class for centering. Useful for
images, buttons, and nested tables. */
.center-on-narrow {
text-align: center !important;
display: block !important;
Margin-left: auto !important;
Margin-right: auto !important;
float: none !important;
}
table.center-on-narrow {
display: inline-block !important;
}

}

body {
background-color: #fff;
width: 100%;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
}

p{
line-height:20px;
}

h1, h2, h3, h4, h5{
color:#7A9534;
}

.signup a {font-family: Roboto Condensed, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;
color: #4F4293; padding-bottom:0px; padding-top: 15px;
font-weight:600; margin-bottom: 0px; text-decoration: none}
-->

Catholic Charities USA


Thursday after Ash Wednesday

Readings of the Day
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I have set before you death and life.  Choose life! (Dt 30:19)

During this second day of Lent, our readings can be seen as a wakeup
call for our Lenten journeys. Moses doesn't beat around the bush
in the first reading when he preaching to the Israelites that they
have two options as they enter the Promised Land.  They can
either choose life and prosperity, or they can choose death and
doom.  Moses warns them to choose wisely because each choice has
consequences.  Unfortunately, the Israelites didn't listen.
Once they reached the Promised Land they did "what was right in
their eyes" and suffered a lot of negative consequences for
their choices.  

But Jesus is all merciful.  In today's gospel, Jesus gives
another opportunity to choose life, and we're warned to choose
wisely.  "What profit is there for one to gain the whole
world, and yet lose your very self?" God in his love wants to
set us free, but he wants us to choose that freedom, knowing that we
will be faced with every temptation telling us that to choose God is a
waste of time.

In the Old Testament, God gave us the Ten Commandments, which are
still relevant today.  In the New Testament, God sums up the Ten
Commandments down to just two.  To paraphrase, He asks us to love
him with every fiber of our being and love each neighbor as ourselves,
because He is in each person we encounter.  God calls us to
choose to die to self in order to live for God in Christ.  When
we choose God, then we choose the poor, the elderly, the unborn, the
disabled, the suffering, the displaced, the broken, the
discarded.  When we live his commandment to love Him and see Him
in all who we encounter, then we have His beautiful promise that we
will prosper in His Promised Land.    

 

Theresa Chamblee is the Director of Social Concerns for the
Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Indiana.  She is also a member of
the Catholic Charities USA Parish Social Ministry Team.

 





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