THE WORD IN LENT - Tuesday, Second week in Lent
March 18, 2025 - Isaiah 1: 10, 16-20; Matthew 23: 1-12
We began this week with a call to return to the homeland... the question we raised then, which is the homeland. At times we have the tendency to fix our own homelands and not the original one, and thus go about our choices so mistaken ruining our own lives and that of the entire humanity and the universe! That is why today the Word points to us the true homeland, the true glory that we need to tend to.
It is not our own petty glory before those who are around me. That has become an overriding criterion that does not permit me to live my life the way it ought to be. I begin to be compromising, pretentious, megalomaniac and so on... because I wish to prove myself before the others and command glory and respect from them.
The real glory is in our humility... those who humbe themselves shall be exalted. It is in that humility that we will acknowledge our limitations and the reality of our being... that is where the Lord encounters us and there shall be a dialogue... come let us discuss, the Lord invites us.
Let us seek that true glory and that will take us back to hope, back to our homeland!
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