+ Again the message of the readings for this Lenten Weekday Mass
are straightforward and to the point. IF we live our day today
through the lenses of FAITH and LOVE – then we will be compassionate (as our
Father in heaven is compassionate – and that is a whole lot of compassion to
bestow on whoever God will put in our path today), we will not judge others and
their situations which we can never understand completely, we will not condemn,
we will grant pardon and seek after peace in all our dealings, beginning with
the people in our own households. We will GIVE, in some cases beyond the point
of no return, beyond what we think our human limits are, beyond our wildest
imaginings – but then the amount of reward, the amount of happiness, the amount
of joy, the amount of peace, the amount of HOPE, poured back into our laps:
will be uncontestedly awesome.
All it takes is BELIEF that
someone came from God to demonstrate exactly how this is all to work, JESUS,
who is God’s Very Speech (stories about how it all works and operates) – Made
Flesh – made into a human being – who quite sadly was murdered by the very people
he came to free!
The first reading reminds us
that it is our SHAME to NOT LISTEN to this eloquent SPEECH OF GOD MADE FLESH –
His integrity always remains the same – but our SHAME INCREASES daily – the
more we do not LISTEN TO THE SPEECH, listen to JESUS, listen to his Church,
listen to him as a cries out to us from the underdog, the poor, the
marginalized, the helpless and the abandoned. Look around they are all over the
place – in various dress, fashion and even disguises.
O Lord, please do not treat us
according to our sins – our willful acts of non-listening but grant us your
forgiveness – and help us to pass it along today to all who also need it very
badly!
Amen.
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