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Giving More in Lent
Featuring Fr. John LoCoco
Fr. John LoCoco, vocations director for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, shares how Lent is a time of giving more and expecting more. By leaning into the suffering of Lent, in even the small things, we're able to more fully return to Jesus with our sometimes fractured and broken hearts.
Return to Me with Your Whole Heart
O God, who delights in innocence and restores it,
direct the hearts of your servants to yourself,
that, caught up in the fire of your spirit,
we may be found steadfast
in faith and effective in works.
—Collect for Mass, Thursday of the Second Week of Lent
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