3rd Sunday of Lent
Between the burning bush and the fig tree, this week’s readings demonstrate that God’s gardening is a bit different than ours. As you make your way through Lent, working to sacrifice and pray, to grow virtue and meditate on Christ’s suffering, now is God at work doing something with your life that you would find hard to see? In what ways could your life be a burning bush, or a tree struggling to p…roduce fruit? Can you marvel at the miracle-in-progress God is working in you, even while you do not understand or appreciate it all? Thank God for the tending He is doing in your life, and give Him permission to keep gardening.
Prayer of the Faithful: For appreciation for the ongoing work God is doing with our souls, we pray to the Lord.
Text: CCCB, National Pastoral Initiative for Life & the Family
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Jesus allows His closest friends to witness the Transfiguration to prepare them for His upcoming passion. In moments we feel defeated, let us recall those times when we experienced God’s particular presence and power.
“If in Christ we have been tempted, in him we overcame the devil. Do you think only of Christ’s temptations and fail to think of his victory? See yourself as tempted in him, and see yourself as victorious in him. He could have kept the devil from himself; but if he were not tempted he could not teach you how to triumph over temptation.” St. Augustine
Luke’s parable speaks of blind spots, the splinters large and small, which prevent us from seeing. Good trees don’t bear rotten fruit. And in the midst of this we hear the reminder that if we are truly disciples, followers of Jesus, we will have what we need to speak and act in the manner of Jesus.
Lord, for all the times I did not love those You placed in my life as You asked me to, I am sorry. Change my heart to love as You would have me love them.