Renunciation
Renunciation of self is perhaps the most difficult of all. Elizabeth Leseur It is month four and Leseur is getting really serious. She is treading in some dangerous territory! If I were a contemplative nun, I might understand renunciation and how it applies more clearly. I'm wondering if I'm up for this. Perhaps I'm making it harder than it is. This Lent I coordinated a program once a week after 10 AM Mass in our parish. What I didn't realize was that that particular Mass is the one most frequently used for funerals. Today I want to my third funeral for a perfect stranger in six weeks. As is often the case I found my mind wandering, fantasizing about my husband's funeral. That isn't quite as morbid as it sounds. He is chronically ill. The first time I almost lost him I was forty, almost thirty years ago and I started planning the funeral as a sort of black humor. My thoughts run not only to hymn