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Discerning the Devil’s Voice

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 invitation.  EJ kept com