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Rector’s Lenten Message 2024

Dear friends: Long live freedom!

Yes, long live freedom. And I am not repeating the slogan of the president of a South American country. I am preaching the Gospel.
God has created us free, and in this we are like God. A freedom that, to be authentic, must be united to truth and goodness. The more we do good, the freer we are (cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1730-1733).

Evil, sin, clouds our mind, weakens our will, enslaves us.
Pope Francis, in his message for this Lent, also speaks to us about freedom. He tells us how, through the desert, the people of Israel made a pilgrimage towards freedom; how the Ten Commandments are a path towards freedom, true freedom, the freedom of the children of God, of the Kingdom of Christ, a kingdom of peace, justice, truth and love.

Lent is a time to renew our decision to say no to evil, no to sin, and to free ourselves from all that harms us, from all that enslaves us, from all that does not allow us to love God and our neighbor with purity of heart. I invite you to renew this desire, this purpose, and with the weapons of prayer, penance and charity, to grow in freedom, in the true freedom of the children of God, called to full love and eternal happiness, which Christ our Lord grants us with his life, death and resurrection.

Let us thus walk with enthusiasm towards Easter 2024.

P. Enrique Tapia, LC. Rector