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   Lenten Weekday First Reading EZEKIEL 37:21-28 21then say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all sides, and bring them to their own land; 22and I will make them one nation in the land, upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king over them all; and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms. 23They shall not defile themselves any more with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will save them from all the backslidings in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. 24"My servant David shall be king over them; and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall follow my ordinances and be careful to observe my statutes. 25They shall dwell in the land where your fathers dwelt that I gave to my servant Jacob; they and their children

   Lenten Weekday First Reading JEREMIAH 20:10-13 10For I hear many whispering. Terror is on every side! "Denounce him! Let us denounce him!" say all my familiar friends, watching for my fall. "Perhaps he will be deceived, then we can overcome him, and take our revenge on him." 11But the LORD is with me as a dread warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble, they will not overcome me. They will be greatly shamed, for they will not succeed. Their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten. 12O LORD of hosts, who triest the righteous, who seest the heart and the mind, let me see thy vengeance upon them, for to thee have I committed my cause. 13Sing to the LORD; praise the LORD! For he has delivered the life of the needy from the hand of evildoers. Responsorial Psalm PSALMS 18:2-7 1I love thee, O LORD, my strength. 2The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. 3I

  Skip to main content Accessibility feedback ☰ Shop Donate MAGAZINE Transgenderism: How Did We Get Here? Three storms have merged to form our recent history of sexual confusion and transgenderism. TIM STAPLES  •  3/31/2023 Share Listen to the audio version of this content When I was in the seminary, my spiritual director, Fr. Patrick Brannan, S.J., told me the story of the dean of men dressing down a young Jesuit scholastic for acting in an “overtly effeminate” manner. Fr. Brannan just happened to be walking by the dean’s office when he overheard these words: “Act like a man. Men don’t act like that!” That was 1950. That was when our culture had the collective common sense to know the biological fact expressed in Genesis 1:27: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” When it comes to the new trend of “ transgenderism ,” I don’t think I’m alone in wondering, “How in the world did we get here?” In our modern age, which i