"We learn that bombs continue to fall in Ukraine and Gaza. People are maimed and murdered through warfare.  In many of our cities, immigrants and refugees have hidden in fear, and many have been hunted down and thrown into for-profit detention centers, separated from their loved ones and forcibly returned to the lands from which they had fled due to poverty and violence.  We hear their cries and have seen their tears.  How many of us have experienced the burning fire of righteous anger this Lent?  Has it brought us to the empty and barren place of recognizing the deep sadness we carry for the many things we cannot change?"