Reflection for the Third Week of Lent

"Christ is most intimate to us when we recognize Christ in those with whom we live most intimately every day, in those with whom every day we share the sacrament of time. In our intercessory prayers for our intimates, for our extended families, for the people we work with, for the guys who collect the garbage, we are literally forming a web of truth, goodness, and beauty through which we are all becoming One Body in Christ. Our prayers of intercession weave the web of the Church into deeper communion---a unity the early Church called koinonia---until the Lord comes. We are each Web sites for the Church and we are posting the Word of God to the world every day."   --- excerpts from Seasons of Celebration, Thomas Merton