Today’s Reflection: For our good, Christ has now taken the position of Moses

Liturgical year B, Cycle II

Thursday of the Forth week of Lent (March 22, 2012)

Readings for Mass

First Reading: Exodus 32:7-14

Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 106:19-20, 21-22, 23

Gospel: John 5: 31-47

Depicted: Christ & Moses

In today’s First reading; Moses fervently pleads with the Lord God and He in turn relents in His punishment, and lets His blazing wrath die down.

After all, God appreciates the fact that the Israelites are His people: His very chosen ones; the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, whom He had promised to bless and uphold their descendants.

In the same way, through the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, we are also heirs to this very promise given to the fathers of Israel. We are God’s chosen few, and just as Moses was pleading the case of the Israelites while at the Mount Sinai, when Israelites resulted to the molten god, Christ has now taken the position of Moses. He is the one who ultimately pleaded our case to His Father, at the Calvary.

So, indeed we are God’s people, the favoured people whom Christ always remembers every time He sees the mark of crucifixion nails on both his hands and feet.

And as His very own people, we should always gain the courage to go to Him and seek forgiveness of our waywardness.

But we can only become God’s people if we – without a shadow of doubt – totally believe in Christ Jesus, who came down to earth in order to atone for our sins.

Every day we profess our faith through the Apostles Creed; we reaffirm our believe in the unity of the Holy Trinity and in the Church as the channel of Christ’s Graces!

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