By Charles Muchiri
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Liturgical Year B, Cycle II
Today’s Mass
Tuesday of the Second week of Lent
Readings for Mass
First Reading: Isaiah
1:10, 16-20
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms
50:8-9, 16-17, 21, 23
Gospel: Matthew
23: 1-12
To
a great extent, today's readings speak a word of hope to all of us, as sinners.
God is ready to accept the people of Gomorrah, despite their history with sins so despicable.
And indeed, we are the Gomorrah that Prophet Isaiah is referring about. We are the ones who have done despicable acts that are a quite a sore before the eyes of God.
We are the ones whom God is summoning for a one on one talk.
God is certainly offering an olive branch here. We only need to renounce our old ways. And do good to the lowly, the needy; the orphans, the widows, the homeless, the jobless, the sick, to those who come seeking our help.
This is the time that we need to embrace both corporal and spiritual works of mercy, more than ever.
Most importantly, as we go on with our lent, as we obey the laws of God, as we pray, as we fast, as we abstain, as we do all that there is to be done this season, Christ tells us in the Gospel: Let us do all these with a good measure of humbleness.
God is ready to accept the people of Gomorrah, despite their history with sins so despicable.
And indeed, we are the Gomorrah that Prophet Isaiah is referring about. We are the ones who have done despicable acts that are a quite a sore before the eyes of God.
We are the ones whom God is summoning for a one on one talk.
God is certainly offering an olive branch here. We only need to renounce our old ways. And do good to the lowly, the needy; the orphans, the widows, the homeless, the jobless, the sick, to those who come seeking our help.
This is the time that we need to embrace both corporal and spiritual works of mercy, more than ever.
Most importantly, as we go on with our lent, as we obey the laws of God, as we pray, as we fast, as we abstain, as we do all that there is to be done this season, Christ tells us in the Gospel: Let us do all these with a good measure of humbleness.
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