Subject: A Renewed Call To Follow
From: "Father John" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2019 11:32:25 -0600

Have you filed your tax return yet? We can take courage since there are still over thirty days to do that without penalty. But don't so many of us have a penchant for procrastination?! Today's gospel brings us a curious episode in Jesus' ministry: Jesus meets a tax collector. The conversation which Luke records between Jesus and this fellow is utterly simple: "Follow me." No procrastination allowed! And so he does follow. In the culture of the day the tax collector - Levi by name - is considered a sinner because he collects taxes for an occupying government.  Regardless of our personal political preferences, we are sinners, and this Lenten season is a renewed call by Jesus to follow him. And following leads to forgiveness and mercy. "I have not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners." (Luke 5:27-32)

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