By Charles Muchiri
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Liturgical Year B, Cycle II
Saint Perpetua & Felicity,
martyrs – Commemoration
Readings for Mass
Wednesday of the Second week of
lent
First Reading: Jeremiah
18:18-20
Responsorial Psalm:
Psalms 31:5-6, 14, 15-16
Gospel:
Matthew 20: 17-28
There
are two persons who are placed before us today: One is Jeremiah the Prophet,
and the other one is Christ.
Jeremiah
is the man of today’s first reading: And Christ is the man on today’s Gospel.
Both have some similarities and some distinct differences at the same time!
Jeremiah
stood at the gap between God and a people whom, due to their sinful ways,
deserved the wrath of God.
Christ
also comes to bridge the gap between man and God the Father. Both are true
servants wh o have to sacrifice for the sake of others.
But
now in the case of Christ, His is not a temporal effort. It is through one
crucifixion, one death and one resurrection that the wrath of God was
permanently turned off the direction of man.
This
is the single purpose for which Christ came to earth: To redeem the
relationship between man and God.
That
said, as Christians and as followers of Christ, we are also subject to the
earthly sufferings that Christ went through.
And
as we go through the trials and temptations on earth; we have to learn to be
servants. Just like Jeremiah was – a servant to the people of God: Just as
Christ was, a servant who came to serve and to give his life as a ransom for
many!
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