Today we hear God deliver the Ten Commandments to Moses and the Chosen People. The commandments provide a way for them to live up to their part of the covenant. We face the same challenge today. Lent is a wonderful opportunity to examine our consciences and recall times when we have failed to follow one of God’s commands and determine which commandments we find difficult to obey consistently. Particularly during this penitential season, how is our relationship with God (prayer) our neighbor (almsgiving) and ourselves (fasting), let us repent (that is change) of our sins, be reconciled with God and those we’ve wronged and pray for the grace to do better.
The covenant that led to the Ten Commandments is not one based on force or coercion. If it was, it would have been broken immediately and repeatedly, as the Chosen People broke commandments left and right even before they reached the promised land, as we do ourselves. But the covenant God made with the human race is based on love, the infinite love that allows God to sustain the repeatedly and seriously broken covenant, the infinite love that led God to send the Son for our salvation, the infinite love that allows us to trust in God’s ultimate mercy.
God loves us to the point of forever inviting us to reconciliation. We are offered an eternal gift without anything in return. But we can pay it forward instead. We can offer what we are able to those who are in no position to pay us back. In doing so, we initiate God’s generosity.
Love, Peace, Joy,
Fr. Bob
Daylight Saving Time begins next weekend, March 10th. Set your clocks forward one hour next Saturday.
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