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Fr. Chad VanHoose March 6, 2019

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there are a handful of times in the life of a person when their forehead is marked with the sign of the cross and in each instance it's a reminder or maybe first a b stole of one's identity who the person is the first time this happens for the Christian is that are the priest or the Deacon along with the parents and the godparents trace the sign of the cross on a child or the person to be baptized for head for the first time and when does cross is traced it bestows a certain identity this child or this person is now claimed that through the waters of baptism this child will now be God's child Father in heaven will look down upon this child or this person and say my son my daughter you belong to me and I belong to you this child for this person now takes on a Divine reality where once there was only a human right reality the next time in the person's life that the cross is traced on the forehead is confirmation and again the Father in heaven looks down upon the person and says my son my daughter you belong to me and I belong to you come be strengthened receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit and be sent Commission the next time the forehead is marked is when there's a danger of death through the anointing of the sick the priest again comes to the person and traces cross on the forehead and the Father in Heaven Again says my son my daughter you belong to me and I belong to you come be healed come be strengthened with my very presence and the last time that the person's forehead is marked is after death has already occurred when the body is separated from the soul and each of us as all will will lie dead in a casket the priest comes one last time and marks the sign of the cross on the forehead and this last time the father Heaven says my son my daughter You Belong To Me and I belong to you come enter into the rest that I prepared for you from all eternity each time the forehead is marked with the sign of the cross it reminds us who and whose we are and so I think this is why at least one reason we have this tradition on Ash Wednesday every single year the forehead is marked again and a sacramental way it points to who AR it points to this greater reality that I ought to Mark every ounce of our life and so we come at the beginning of this holy season of Lent and Mark ourselves with the cross that song end of Christ's death for us the death in which we are Incorporated so that we might enjoy that relationship with the father through his son Jesus and anything that has distracted us from that relationship we are cold to put a side during the season of Lent this is why we fast we give alms we pray more in Lent so we can put aside those things that have distracted us from our identity as a son or a daughter of God the Father this is the season of Lent is about about putting aside these things and reminding us of our identity so today as you hear the words repent and believe in the gospel as that crosses again marked on your forehead hear those words from the father you are my son my daughter belong to me and I belong to you

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