THE WORD IN LENT - Monday, Second Week of Lent
March 17, 2025 - Daniel 9: 4-10; Luke 6: 36-38
Monday, March 17, 2025
A RETURN TO HOPE... TO THE HOMELAND
The fact, the pact and the foretaste
Second Sunday in Lent - March 16, 2025
Genesis 15: 5-12, 17-18; Philippians 3:17 - 4:1; Luke 9: 28-36
The Fact:
Our life is a pilgrimage, a pilgrimage towards our eternal homeland. It is a fact that we are passing by, but how prepared are we to accept that, recognise that and make it our perspective?
The Pact:
How are we so sure that the Lord has the homeland prepared for us? The Pact, the covenant... that is the eternal promise, there can be no doubt about it. Only issue could be that we make ourselves not worthy of that homeland by our choices and our priorities, but we have an open and persistent invitation to grow into heaven, our homeland.
The Foretaste:
The Lord gives us a foretaste of this glory, the splendour that the Lord has prepared for us, as our homeland. Just as Jesus gives his disciples the foretaste of the future glory, so does the Lord give us in many ways - our celebrations, the sacraments, every eucharist, our successes in life - all of these are foretastes of the splendour promised us.
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