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Lent - Week Two 2010
By Pat Lee | March 2, 2010
Tuesday : March 2nd, 2010
Readings : Ezekiel 18:21-28; Matthew 5: 20-26
Scripture Verse : “Do I not rather rejoice, when he turns from his evil way that he might live?” Ezekiel 18:23
Reflection : At a social event, more than just a few years ago, a friend of mine was displaying her engagement ring for me to see. When I congratulated her, she then proceeded to tell me (and everyone else) the story of how the engagement had occurred. Then she went on to explain the proper protocol– whom she had told first, second and third. All the women at the party were nodding in agreement. I thought to myself, “There is a whole environment surrounding the engagement process about which men know nothing.”
In our first reading from Ezekiel, God tells Israel what their love will be like. The reading gives the impression that God knows all about the process of love and the people of Israel are in the dark. God has to teach them the proper protocol of love. Jesus also teaches the people what it means to love in the way that God wants.
In Lent we are invited to spend time each day in prayer before God, asking him to teach us his way of love and, through listening to and meditating on God’s Word, learning the way of God’s love. If we open our hearts and our minds and focus on God alone, the Lord will teach us, as he revealed to Israel, the contract of love. We remember the words of the Psalm “Happy are they who observe (God’s) decrees/ who seek (the Lord) with all their heart.” Psalm 119:2
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