THURSDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY
Mystery of the day: Luminous
Theme: The natural freedom of choice.
Lenten Exercise: Say a mystery of the rosary and put a smile on one's face today.
"Moses spoke to the people, saying, "See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil." (Deuteronomy 30:15)
God gratuitously gave man right from creation the natural freedom of choice. That is, the ability to choose "right" from "wrong" and "life" from "death". This freedom is being reechoed in the first reading of today by Moses who said:
"Moses spoke to the people, saying, "See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil." (Deuteronomy 30:15)
Addressing the Isrealites, he laid bare the necessary conditions to earn life; stressing the adherence to the Divine detects and ordinances. And that failure to keep this solemn rule will tantamount to eternal death.
As we begin, this forty days of desert or wilderness experience, we need to gird our loin and fasten our belt so that we would be able to keep it to the end.
However, it is not a matter of keeping the lenten observances and going back to it after the season, but being faithful to it within the season and beyond.
What are these observances? The answer is embedded in the tripartite lenten acts: Fasting, Prayer and Almsgiving. These acts is being summarized in "Love", which is the real essence of God.
Therefore, let our prayers, fasting and almsgiving be borne out of love of God through our fellow men. Let almsgiving or charity not be carried out when we want to speak about God, but let the act itself speaks about God.
Peace! Be with you.
Let us pray
Prompt our actions with your inspiration, we pray, O Lord, and further them with your constant help, that all we do may always begin from you and by you be brought to completion. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
©The ARCHIVE 2302223
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