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Journey into the Cloud

2nd Sunday of Lent   Cycle C March 12/13 https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/031322.cfm Three weeks ago, a group of more than twenty St. Agnes and six Good Shepherd parishioners visited Christ the King parish on 44 th Street in our city’s West End.   Christ the King is one of four predominately Black Catholic parishes in our city.   Our visit was a continuation of a program called “Moving Towards Oneness” that partnered several of our parishioners with others from Christ the King and Good Shepherd this year. During Lent we are called to go unfamiliar and sometimes uncomfortable places and to respond, in the words of our Lenten theme for this year, “I must go.”   Last week, the Holy Spirit led Jesus into the desert.  This week the Holy Spirit appears in a stranger guise—a bright cloud that overwhelms the three disciples, Peter, James, and John, that accompany Jesus to the top of Mt. Tabor.  The journey to Christ the King did not have as many pyrotechnics, but the Holy Sp