2017 Busy Catholic’s
Online Lenten Retreat
Living Lent With Love
Day Two
Tuesday,
March 21
Today’s Scripture
(Daniel
3:25, 34-43)
Azariah stood
up in the midst of the fire and prayed aloud: …For your name’s sake, do not
deliver us up forever, or make void your covenant. Do not take away your mercy
from us, for the sake of Abraham, your beloved, Isaac your servant, and Israel
your holy one, to whom you promised to multiply their offspring like the stars
of heaven…. For we are reduced, O Lord, beyond any other nation, brought low
everywhere in the world this day because of our sins. We have…no prince,
prophet, or leader, no burnt offering…no place to offer first fruits, to find
favor with you. But with contrite heart and humble spirit let us be received;
As though it were burnt offerings of rams and bulls, or tens of thousands of
fat lambs, so let our sacrifice be in your presence today and find favor before
you; for those who trust in you cannot be put to shame. And now we follow you
with our whole heart, we fear you and we seek your face. Do not put us to shame,
but deal with us in your kindness and great mercy.
Pope Francis’s
Comment
It
is in the family that we learn to speak our “mother tongue”, the
language of those who have gone before us. In the family we realize that others
have preceded us, they made it possible for us to exist and in our turn to
generate life and to do something good and beautiful. We can give because
we have received. This virtuous circle is at the heart of the family’s ability
to communicate among its members and with others. More generally, it is the
model for all communication.
(Message
for World Communications Day, January 23, 2015)
Let us pray.
Loving
God, at times in my life, I need to call on that great cloud of witnesses who
have gone before me. These saints known and unknown can be found in the global
community, certainly. But what about in my own corner of the world? Lift up for
me today my own personal list of the holy ones who are part of my graced story.
Surround me with the blessed memory of family, friends and neighbors who have
set the stage for me to grow into the fullness of your dream for me. Amen.
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year’s online retreat is excerpted with permission from Living Lent with Love.
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