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Catholic Charities USA
Monday of the Second Week of Lent
Readings of the Day
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The readings for today begin in a strange manner. The first reading
from Daniel starts us off with a great cry to the Lord, proclaiming
that he is "great and awesome," and that he keeps his
"covenant of love." But then, the reading plunges
into a long diatribe about how "we," the people of God,
have sinned and been wicked and have failed.
Yet, it is not the long list of sins and rebellion that make up the
tone of the reading. Instead of sounding desperate and pessimistic,
the laundry list of sins is proclaimed with the open honesty of a
child, crying out to his parent when he is hurt. We can imagine
a child crying "Mom! Dad! I've hurt myself!
Come quick and help me! I need you to make it all
better!" That's more like what this reading sounds
like. This child is fully confident that someone who loves him will
hear and come running to help.
This attitude turns out to be exactly what Jesus tells us to do in the
Gospel - to be "merciful, just as your father is
merciful." When a loved child calls out in pain, the
parent responds in love, not judgement. We can trust that our Father
is merciful, loves us and wishes to save us. When we recognize that we
have fallen, we should cry out to God to help us. Then, we should
treat others with the same mercy. Children often pick up their
behavior from the behavior their parents model. If God is
merciful to us, then we should imitate that to others. As his
children, we imitate his behavior.
Jesus tells us to take on the attitude of a child, not that of a
parent. He tells us not to judge, but to forgive and to share. In
other words, he reminds us to leave the judging in the hands of the
only one who can judge - God, and for us to remain in the place
of the loved child. This is a continuation of the theme of the
readings from the last several days. It is summed up in the Our
Father, the prayer Jesus himself gave us, which he addresses to his
loving Father, Abba. In the Our Father, we ask God to "forgive
us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
" We are to take on the ways of the Father, to be children of
God, so that his Kingdom may come.
Sarah Pedrozo is Director of Family Catechesis and Evangelization
at St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church in Austin, Texas.
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