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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Do you have ten minutes a day to release the graces and peace of Lent into your life? “This Lent and Easter we have the opportunity to know the person of Jesus better in order to live a deeper and more
authentic Christian life of service. Our online Lenten Retreat – from the Jesuits of Scotland – includes Sacred Scripture and prayer material, art and music to pray with and other prayer resources to help you deepen your faith.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This brief daily retreat is from Ash Wednesday, February 17<sup>th</sup> to Sunday, April 11<sup>th</sup>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Access the retreat: <a href="https://www.pathwaystogod.org/lent-retreat-2021">https://www.pathwaystogod.org/lent-retreat-2021</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Click “<b>Follow the Retreat</b>” to access the prayer for each day, or “<b>Sign Up For Daily Emails</b>” to have the material sent to you each day.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Blessings and peace,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Reverend Michael B. Medas, MSW<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Catholic Chaplain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Massachusetts Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">W11-012 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">40 Massachusetts Ave.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Cambridge, MA 02139<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">“<i>But now thus says the Lord,<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> He who created you, O Jacob,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> He who formed you, O Israel:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">I have called you by name, you are mine.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Isaiah 43:1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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