Throughout Lent, we have practiced acts of meaningful submission by fasting, praying, and giving alms. By surrendering these human attachments, we have opened our hearts and hands to divine concerns. During this final week, we examine once more if there are things or relationships that we grasp too tightly. Instead, how can we be more like the blessed Mother, surrendering back to God at the appointed time what has been entrusted to our care?

_{^{Image Credit: Gustave Doré, (French, 1832-1883), The Madonna, ca. 1880, Bronze with dark brown patina, Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame. Joyce McMahon Hank, SMC ’52 Fund, 1985.032.}}