St. Agnes Catholic Church February 25/26 1st Sunday of Lent https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/022623.cfm Good evening / morning, St. Agnes, and a blessed beginning of Lent. On Martin Luther King weekend, a group of St. Agnes parishioners from the St. Thea Bowman Society visited Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic church, a predominately Black parish on the West End. My six-year-old son EJ was with me. In the lobby were numerous posters of Dr. King in honor of the occasion, but there was also a permanent framed poster on the wall there. It was titled, “the Fork in the Road” and it shows a man and a woman standing at a crossroads. On one side is a leafy green pathway reading to Jesus, wreathed in a rainbow and clouds with his arms extended in invitation. On the other half of the image, is a desolate path, enveloped in storm clouds and lightning. At the end top is an ominous figure with a death’s-head and horns. Just like Jesus, his arms are extended in ...
These posts are the collected homilies of Deacon Ned Berghausen, permanent deacon of the Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville, assigned to St. Agnes Catholic Church. The title "Foot Washer" refers to the Last Supper (John 13:1-20) in which Jesus washed the feet of the apostles and challenged them, "“Do you realize what I have done for you? If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another’s feet. I have given you a model to follow."