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/* 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;
}
-->

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/* 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}
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Catholic Charities USA


First Sunday of Lent

Readings of the Day
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Hard to believe we find ourselves now in March and the first week of
Lent. The new year is unspooling, too quickly, even as the last two
years have dragged, carrying on their sagging shoulders the weight of
pandemic and natural disaster and war, always war. As a writer in
America magazine asked last week, "When is the last time it

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hasn't been Lent?"

Today's readings offer a balm, then, if, like me, you need
encouragement even as the ashes still feel fresh on your forehead. The
Gospel of Luke reminds us that Jesus himself was tempted - to
prove he is truly the Son of God, to seize the power and glory of all
the kingdoms on Earth for himself, to turn the tables and tempt God by
throwing himself from the parapet of the temple. To all this, Jesus
says no.

Since our temptations and Lenten sacrifices are likely of a more
modest nature - to nibble on chocolate anyway, to have just one
glass, to skip the daily prayer time because we're busy, to lose
our temper with the kids because we're tired - the
devil's taunting of Christ might be something we can't
relate to. He is the son of God, after all! And then the lesson is
lost. But wait!

The devil also quotes today's Psalm, in which we are reminded
that the angels of the Lord "shall bear you up, lest you dash
your foot against a stone." That line has always struck me, not
least because the image is both ordinary and poetic. How can it be
that God, who surely has bigger things to worry about - war in
Ukraine, humanitarian crises in Syria and Afghanistan, genocide in
China - is also guiding my every step to save me from a fall? I
am but one small, unimportant person.

And yet to God I am everything. Even where I step and- too
often, I fear - fall - because of pride, anger, greed
- concerns the Lord. Like a loving parent, God wants to save us
from our missteps but loves us enough to allow us to make them. The
Gospel does end, don't forget, with "When the devil had
finished every temptation, he departed from him for a time." We
will always face temptation, but God will ever be there -
wanting, waiting - to lift us up on the hands of angels.

 

Julie Bourbon is a senior writer in marketing and communications and
new to CCUSA. A native of the DMV, she is a news junkie, a baseball
fan, a baker of king cakes and always on the lookout for new recipes
and reading recommendations.





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