Today, March 20 is the Feast Day of Saint Jósef Bilczewski. Jósef was the oldest of nine children, born to a farming family in Poland. He was quite intelligent and balanced study with work around the farm. He entered seminary in Krakow and went on to study Dogma and Christian Archeology in Rome and in Parish. He became a professor at the University of Lviv and later rector (principal). He was then asked by Pope Leo XIII to become archbishop of Lviv. He led his flock in the troubling times of WWI, the Polish-Ukrainian War, the Bolshevik invasion, and the Communist threat to the Church. His intellect was brilliant and his heart loving and fatherly. He protected and cared for his people and in particular, the poor. When Jósef Bilczewski died on March 20, 1923, he was buried in a cemetery for the poor, as he felt most at home among them. Two additional notes from me today: • Today is a Friday in Lent; please remember to abstain from all meat. As Catholics, this is an obligation: we give up flesh meat on Friday in honor of our Lord's sacrifice of his flesh, the "flesh for the life of the world" (John 6:51), on the cross. • I encourage each of you to pray the Stations of the Cross devotion today. You may do it privately, or together with your family. Below are two very good versions of the Stations of the Cross that are currently available on YouTube. As you make this devotion, it is helpful for your prayer to continue make the gestures of genuflecting at the beginning of each station and kneeling for the prayers. The Stations can be made on any day of the week but are especially recommended on Fridays in Lent. Choose one of the Stations to make today. Here are the links (there are others on YouTube as well): o Stations of the Cross by Saint Alphonsus Liguori: https://youtu.be/456Y0ZQWxB0 o Stations of the Cross, based on the Scriptural texts: https://youtu.be/-8lUZ1Hyx4I