(Listen to this homily here).
Each of our readings features the need to make a choice
between one of two options.
Moses eloquently summarizes God’s proposal to His
people: “I have set before you life
and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that
you and your descendants may live.”
The responsorial Psalm was from the very first Psalm—Psalm
1 acts like an introduction to the 149 Psalms to follow. In it, the righteous and the wicked are
in contrasted. The former would be
like a tree planted by still water.
The latter would be chaff.
And listen again to Jesus’ own words: “If anyone wishes to come after me, he must
deny himself and take up his cross daily and
follow me. For
whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my
sake will save it.”
Lent is a time to make a decision. The key decision is, as the Second
Vatican Council stated, to offer ourselves as a gift to another. May our prayer, fasting and almsgiving
allow us to choose life for others.
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