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Catholic Charities USA
Third Sunday of Lent
Readings of the Day
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A few weeks ago, some co-workers and I took part in our
community's Point-in-Time count, when hundreds of volunteers are
sent out in the middle of the night to identify persons who are
homeless and living on the streets. It's not the most gratifying
of assignments, in that you don't do anything to help; you are
simply assessing community needs. In fact, we were advised to be as
inconspicuous as possible, because we were visiting the
"homes" of those who are homeless: their cars, their
tents, their bridges and parks. Our job was to observe, to
respect the sacred spaces where people were sleeping, and to come back
to tell the story of the poverty and suffering that we witnessed.
Our first reading today reminds us of the sacredness of the work we
were undertaking. In the narrative, an urgent problem has come to
God's attention: "I have witnessed the affliction of
my people...I know well what they are suffering...I have
come to rescue them" (Ex. 3:7). God is "kind and
merciful" (Ps. 103:8) and thus cannot remain silent when God
witnesses suffering. The whole encounter with Moses takes place on
"holy ground" (Ex. 3:5), which in the Bible is any place
where God chooses to reveal God's self. And God almost always
appears wherever people are in pain, suffering, and being treated
unjustly (Ps. 103:6).
Toward the end of the night of the Point-in-Time count, I found
myself in a Walmart parking lot where six or seven cars were parked;
the windows were fogged in each car, indicating someone was sleeping,
or trying to sleep, inside. A group of tents were set-up under a
bridge nearby for those who did not even have a car to sleep in. It
may not have appeared so to passersby and late-night shoppers, but I
realize now that the Walmart parking lot was holy ground too. God was
there, hearing the cries of suffering, and calling those of us
witnessing the affliction, to be a voice for those who were suffering,
just as God did for Moses. Indeed, it seems that much of our
work at Catholic Charities takes place on holy ground: the sacred
space of counseling offices, soup kitchens, food giveaways, and crisis
pregnancy centers, where God uses us, like Moses, to come to the aid
of his suffering people.
Collen Mayer, formerly of Catholic Charities of Tennessee, is Chief
Operating Officer of the Safe Haven Family Shelter in Nashville.
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