That's one of the reasons we are all here together today, in hopes of somehow getting it right. In another few days, we will begin the season of Lent, that special season each year for trying again to get things right in ourlives. We will begin Lent together, receiving and wearing the ashes that remind us that, however long or well we live, even we will someday die. Ancient wisdom that still is timely. This past week, the rapper Eminem, spewing - or better, using homophobic and mysogenistic words to attract notoriety, was rewarded with, not one, not two, but three Grammys.
Words have power.
We all know first-hand the power of words. Let me share two things I heard this week. I tried to be composed as possible. Afterwards, as I was hearing confessions, a woman stopped in, not to confess, but to tell me how inspiring the Mass was. It was great.