In today’s Gospel, Jesus offers a more concise form of prayer that encourages us to be more trusting and less acquisitive.
Looking for the 2023 Lenten series?
This coming year, Pope Francis will release a much anticipated encyclical on care for creation.
In preparation for the encyclical and Easter, we are offering a Lenten reflection series. Authors from around the world will offer short reflections from their experiences of caring for creation and the day’s readings. These daily reflections will examine our faith and how we practice environmental stewardship.
Today’s Reflection:
Living as a Christian is not only about refraining oneself from stealing and killing, but also caring for the life of others by giving food to the hungry and drink to the thirsty.
When Jesus entered the desert, he left behind distractions to find out what really matters in life. Only in that lifeless desert could Jesus find that it is life that really matters.
Forty years ago this month Wheeling College witnessed the unveiling of a remarkable document, “This Land is Home to Me, A Pastoral Letter on Powerlessness in Appalachia by the Catholic bishops of the Region.”
For those of us who care deeply for our earth and all its inhabitants, we may relate to the call to lift up our voice like a trumpet blast to tell society of its short-sightedness and even wickedness.
Well, we’ve just begun our own 40-day desert journey, and we have the same options laid before us. And we’re reminded still that our decisions, both individually and collectively, affect not only our lives, but the lives also of our children’s children. Our decisions can enrich the health of our planet, sustaining many new generations; our decisions can also compromise it!
Today we can ask, “Lord, reorient my whole heart to you, in new ways.” Let us ask for a growing awareness of and compassion for those who suffer as our planet suffers. Let us make this journey with hearts more attuned to those affected most as some of us, through privilege, greed and overconsumption, abuse our common home.
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