I do hope that your Lenten journey so far is proving to be fruitful to your spiritual life and your continued progress in prayer, the most important element of our life. As you know, my brothers and sisters, during Lent we do not celebrate too many saints, feasts, and memorials because it is a penitential season. However, some saints do shine forth, and they are a bit of a breath of fresh air for us in that they give us some lighter spiritual contemplation during this ascetical period. Saint Joseph being one of them, for example, March 19th. And today I felt that this optional memorial to Saint Katharine Drexel is so important for us to consider, especially we who are Franciscans and Franciscan affiliated, because Saint Katharine Drexel had a beautiful connection to the friars.