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Third Week of Lent
The Third Sunday of Lent, offers
Moses' encounter with God in the
burning bush. The Lord promises
Moses that he will lead the captive
Israelites out of Egypt and into a land
flowing with milk and honey. Luke's
Gospel tells us of Jesus' warning that
we must be willing to repent now and
that our lives could end by accident or
through the evil of someone else. The
parable of the barren fig tree reminds
us of God's patient love for us, even
when we show no signs of changing our
lives.
The weekday readings are a mix of
Gospels by Matthew, Luke and
Mark. Jesus teaches in his synagogue
at home and is rejected by the people.
Peter asks Jesus the limits of
forgiveness. Jesus says that we must
forgive again and again. Jesus has
come to fulfill the law and the words of
the prophets, not abolish them. Jesus
drives out a demon from a mute man.
When asked to name the greatest
commandment, Jesus names two, thus
putting together the necessity of loving
God with our entire being and loving our
neighbor as our very selves. Jesus has
challenging words for those who are
convinced of their own righteousness
and despise everyone else.
For the Fourth Sunday of Lent, we
read the powerful story of the Prodigal
son from Luke's Gospel. The younger
son, who asks for his inheritance and
spends it all, returns and asks to be a
servant at his father's house. Instead he
is welcome home with open arms by his
father who was filled with compassion,
ran to his son and forgave him. The
older son is jealous and will not share in
the happiness but the father says to
celebrate and rejoice, because your
brother was dead and has come to life
again; he was lost and has been found.
The Third Sunday of Lent, offers
Moses' encounter with God in the
burning bush. The Lord promises
Moses that he will lead the captive
Israelites out of Egypt and into a land
flowing with milk and honey. Luke's
Gospel tells us of Jesus' warning that
we must be willing to repent now and
that our lives could end by accident or
through the evil of someone else. The
parable of the barren fig tree reminds
us of God's patient love for us, even
when we show no signs of changing our
lives.
The weekday readings are a mix of
Gospels by Matthew, Luke and
Mark. Jesus teaches in his synagogue
at home and is rejected by the people.
Peter asks Jesus the limits of
forgiveness. Jesus says that we must
forgive again and again. Jesus has
come to fulfill the law and the words of
the prophets, not abolish them. Jesus
drives out a demon from a mute man.
When asked to name the greatest
commandment, Jesus names two, thus
putting together the necessity of loving
God with our entire being and loving our
neighbor as our very selves. Jesus has
challenging words for those who are
convinced of their own righteousness
and despise everyone else.
For the Fourth Sunday of Lent, we
read the powerful story of the Prodigal
son from Luke's Gospel. The younger
son, who asks for his inheritance and
spends it all, returns and asks to be a
servant at his father's house. Instead he
is welcome home with open arms by his
father who was filled with compassion,
ran to his son and forgave him. The
older son is jealous and will not share in
the happiness but the father says to
celebrate and rejoice, because your
brother was dead and has come to life
again; he was lost and has been found.
Daily Prayer This Week.
If we have begun to fast and abstain from
some things that get in the way of our
relationship with the Lord, then we are
engaging in a struggle.
We need to prepare for a deeper
conversion, a readiness for reconciliation
with God and the graces that will allow us
to be a source of reconciliation with
others. This is the time when we begin to
see and experience how much God loves us
at new and more personal level. These
graces prepare us to keep our eyes focused
on Jesus in the weeks ahead-to learn from
him, to fall in love with him more deeply
and to be drawn to imitate him more
completely.
God does not need a lot of time to
convince us of his love for us.
This is a week about God's love for us and
our call to love others the same way. Ask
the Lord for the grace to let our mind and
heart be renewed in the concrete
circumstances, relationships and
obligations of our day.
Our request for the Lord's help is always
there and our awareness of it, will help us
make the choices we desire to make, to let
go of what we need to let go of, to add
what we need to add. This will take us
deeper and deeper into self-awareness and
a sense of our need for a Savior, who is
right there to embrace us and give us the
graces we ask for with such longing.
From the Prayer Ministry at Creighton
University.
If we have begun to fast and abstain from
some things that get in the way of our
relationship with the Lord, then we are
engaging in a struggle.
We need to prepare for a deeper
conversion, a readiness for reconciliation
with God and the graces that will allow us
to be a source of reconciliation with
others. This is the time when we begin to
see and experience how much God loves us
at new and more personal level. These
graces prepare us to keep our eyes focused
on Jesus in the weeks ahead-to learn from
him, to fall in love with him more deeply
and to be drawn to imitate him more
completely.
God does not need a lot of time to
convince us of his love for us.
This is a week about God's love for us and
our call to love others the same way. Ask
the Lord for the grace to let our mind and
heart be renewed in the concrete
circumstances, relationships and
obligations of our day.
Our request for the Lord's help is always
there and our awareness of it, will help us
make the choices we desire to make, to let
go of what we need to let go of, to add
what we need to add. This will take us
deeper and deeper into self-awareness and
a sense of our need for a Savior, who is
right there to embrace us and give us the
graces we ask for with such longing.
From the Prayer Ministry at Creighton
University.
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