Day 35: Seeking and Seeing Salvation

In today’s first reading, the people are suffering from an affliction by serpents (which they seemed to have brought on themselves) and they look to Moses for a cure. Following the directions God gives, Moses makes a bronze serpent and mounts it on a pole and “whenever anyone who had been bitten by a serpent looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.” God hears the cries of the people, providing them with a visual source of their salvation.

Day 34: Responding with Compassion

“Dear God,” we pray, “thank you that I’m not a thug like them.”

Day 33: Throwing Stones, Gaining Votes

Today’s gospel reading presents us with the image of a bruised, trembling prostitute at Jesus’ feet.