Mark Rehagen

Men, we are embarking soon on the  most Holy Week of the Year.  What will you do to properly observe it?   We start this Sunday with  Palm Sunday.  We’ll be asked to “do our part” and participate in saying that we want to let Jesus be crucified.  What a way to start Holy Week ….   But, it is  for our  sins that Jesus died.  When he was on the Cross 2,000 years ago, he knew the sins of each one of us men in Mid-Missouri in April 2026.  To be brutally honest, we deserve the shame to say, “Let...

Men, not everyone may think this way, but Lent is a great time of the year to be Catholic .  We know the purpose is to prepare ourselves for the greatest gift ever given–the salvation of humanity by the Son of God .  It’s an amazing gift given to us–what God would send his own Son to redeem his children who had strayed?   Our theology teaches us that only God could redeem us from the infinite sin of Adam .  Given that the sin of Adam was such a tremendous offense against God, man himself...

Men of Signum Crucis , today the Christmas season has officially ended.  Don’t be glum about it.  Later this month, the Church gives us another great season to observe.   Lent.    Lent?             Though things often seem to move slowly in the Church, we just as often observe that the Church continues to march forward quickly.             It’s time for Lent already?  Wasn’t Jesus just born 40 days ago?  Now we are about to observe a time for prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that culminates in...