Lenten Pilgrimage: Feb. 23, 2015 Monday, First Week of Lent
A Lenten Pilgrimage
Monday, First Week of Lent
‘Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.’ (Matthew 25:40)
Today’s Gospel invites us to find the face of Christ in each of our brothers and sisters. Perhaps it would be easier to see Christ in others if we remembered that we are all made in the very image and likeness of God. One day we will be asked how well we responded to the need of others…. Did we love God? Did we love each other? Did we serve and care for the hungry and homeless, the sick, the destitute, the outcast, and those in prison? Did we respect everyone’s dignity? Did we work for peace? Whatever our response is will reflect whether we understood that love is not so much an emotion as much as it is an act of the will, the loving act of willing another's good, even at the expense of our own.
Let us ask the Lord, whom we behold under the appearances of simple bread and wine, to help us recognize him in the disguise of the poor, the sick, the naked, the hungry, the imprisoned, the lonely, and the dying.
Monday, First Week of Lent
‘Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.’ (Matthew 25:40)
Today’s Gospel invites us to find the face of Christ in each of our brothers and sisters. Perhaps it would be easier to see Christ in others if we remembered that we are all made in the very image and likeness of God. One day we will be asked how well we responded to the need of others…. Did we love God? Did we love each other? Did we serve and care for the hungry and homeless, the sick, the destitute, the outcast, and those in prison? Did we respect everyone’s dignity? Did we work for peace? Whatever our response is will reflect whether we understood that love is not so much an emotion as much as it is an act of the will, the loving act of willing another's good, even at the expense of our own.
Let us ask the Lord, whom we behold under the appearances of simple bread and wine, to help us recognize him in the disguise of the poor, the sick, the naked, the hungry, the imprisoned, the lonely, and the dying.
