"Rend not your garments, rend your hearts"-The Prophet Joel (Old Testament) "I desire mercy and not sacrifice."-Jesus Helping distribute the ashes on the foreheads and serving as Eucharistic minister at this evening's mass are just some of the ways in which I feel called to serve God and His Church. The so called "beauty" of this age is fading away; perhaps faster now than ever before. Part of me says, "Rightly so". A nation, society and people that celebrate unsustainability and debt inevitably reap what they sow. And me? Well, let's just say I'm a small but relevant counterbalance to a train that's gone completely off its rails. I try to be, at least a few drops of water or squirts of extinguisher on the raging fires of consumption, apathy and aloofness. And yes; I know I'm not at all worthy of any honor. My failures ever before me could form a mountain which no warrior can climb. But at least I try. At least I can say I f...