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Catholic Charities USA
Wednesday of the First Week of Lent
Readings of the Day
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With today's Scriptures we enter deeply into the penitential
nature of Lent. They are a call to repentance and conversion as
captured in the words of Jesus inaugurating his public ministry:
"Repent and believe in the Gospel" - the same words
proclaimed in the imposition of ashes.
Repentance and conversion was the "signature" message, if
you will, of the Old Testament prophets. Jonah's message from
the Lord spoke against the wickedness of the people of Nineveh. Jonah
disobeyed this message, and what followed was the familiar story of
Jonah taking flight on a ship, being thrown overboard by the crew,
swallowed up in the belly of the whale, and the Lord having the whale
spew him out after three days.
In today's passage the Lord called on Jonah, for the second
time, to proclaim the destruction of Nineveh in forty days. Upon
hearing the message, he king and the people of Nineveh repented of
their wickedness. The Lord responded: "When God saw by their
actions how they turned from their evil way, he repented of the evil
that he had threatened to do to them; he did not carry it out."
Psalm 51, the Miserere, is the definitive penitential psalm in which
one humbly expresses sinfulness, seeking the Lord's forgiveness
through his mercy and compassion and recognizing that, in the psalm
response, "A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you will not
spurn." Finally, in the Gospel, Jesus denounces the people who
are gathered as "an evil generation" resisting repentance.
Jesus asserted, "At the judgment the men of Nineveh will arise
with this generation and condemn it, because at the preaching of Jonah
they repented, and there is something greater than Jonah here."
Reflecting on this Lenten penitential theme and called upon, in our
ministries, to be ministers of compassion, mercy, love and
forgiveness, we are challenged, I believe, to "a heart that is
contrite and humbled." It is this heart in which we humbly first
acknowledge our own waywardness, seeking God's mercy and
forgiveness, that can open us more fully to those who also may be
struggling with Jesus' exhortation to "Be merciful, just
as [also] your Father is merciful." So, we prayerfully petition
the Lord, "A clean heart create for me, O God, and a steadfast
spirit renew within me." (Psalm 51:12)
Fr. Dennis M. Weber, SdC, a priest of the Servants of Charity, is the
Director of Ministry and Mission for the Developmental Programs
Division of Catholic Social Services of the Archdiocese of
Philadelphia. He has been blessed and privileged to serve for over 31
years in this ministry.
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