Today is the Fifth Sunday of Great Lent On the 5th Sunday of Great Lent, we commemorate St. Mary of Egypt. Her story is illustrates God's capacity to heal and help us transform regardless of the bad choices we have made or if we have lived a life of sin. Each one of us has it in us to turn our lives around. Personally, I have always thought it was interesting that we commemorated her on the 5th Sunday. This is the final Sunday before we get to the home stretch of the lenten season which is marked Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday. After Palm Sunday, we begin Holy Week. St. Zosimas and St. Mary of Egypt Who Was Saint Mary of Egypt? Saint Mary of Egypt left her home and family at around age of 12 to live a life of personal pleasure and sin. When she lived this life it would not bring her happiness, but emptiness and distance from God. One day she found herself at the entrance of the...