Christ Our Savior, As our Lenten journey brings us closer to Easter, we see with a deeper awareness our world’s desperate need to experience the healing power of your justice and peace. Make us sacraments of your mercy and instruments of your compassion. Show us how to be better stewards of your people; through our families, our brothers and sisters with whom we share your Eucharist, our neighbors, and the stranger. Show us how to carry the cross so that by dying to ourselves we may give new life to others. more confidently, every day, in word and deed. Amen. And strengthen our faith, so that we may proclaim your Easter triumph Spiritual Housecleaning is  Good Stewardship Spring housecleaning used to be a solemn ritual in many families. Dedicated homemakers took down heavy winter drapes and replaced them with summer’s lighter fabric. Bedding was washed and aired on backyard clotheslines, storm windows lined up against the house for a thorough wash. This time of year, our grandmothers removed and cleaned everything from cupboards and closets. Today, with most adults working outside the home, and schedules f illed to overflowing, cleaning can sometimes be more piecemeal, catch-as-catch-can. As light streams through our windows and chases away the shadows, let the Light of Christ continue to illuminate the dark spots in your own spiritual life.