By Charles Muchiri
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Liturgical Year B, Cycle II
Wednesday of the First week of Lent
Readings for Mass
First Reading: Jonah 3: 1-10
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 51: 3-4,
12-13, 18-19
Gospel: Luke 11: 29-32
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| Confessional |
The people of Nineveh may have been
as evil as the word could stretch, yet when Jonah came impressing upon them to
repent; they all went back to God, with their contrite hearts.
The king of Nineveh announced a
forty days fast, that had to be adhered by all, not even sparing the domestic
animals.
Christ takes note of these Nineveh
people, determination to abandon sin. He also takes note of another ‘outsider’
to the house of God, the queen of the south (Queen Sheba) who travelled
all the way to hear the Wisdom of Solomon.
Bottom line, it’s not about the magnitude of our sins that matter,
rather it’s about the magnitude of our contriteness; our fervent desire to
abandon our old ways.
So, as we move on with this season of Lent, let us gather enough resolve
to abandon sin; let us truly be sorry for our old, deviant ways that have
caused a rift between us and the Graces of God!
/E-mail this writer: muchirimuchoki@yahoo.com/
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