Saturday 11 March
Saturday of the 2nd week of Lent First reading - Micah 7:14-15,18-20 In the words of Prophet Micah, we can find the words from a heart which loves the Lord remembering Him with gratitude. Gratitude for all the wonders of the past, for the mercy shown in past. This gratitude makes us remembers how beautiful it’s to be led by the Lord. Life will be filled with wonders when you let yourself be led by the Lord. Because the grace of God finds always place in your life, make changes for miracles. Moreover, the Lord forgives our mistakes. There is something more beautiful. The Lord finds His delight in showing mercy. How consoling and touching that is! He takes away and throw our sins in the bottom of the sea. A stable relationship with this Lord is the beauty of life. Let’s reflect: Lent is the moment to make the gratitude to the Lord revives our relationship with Him.
Friday 10 March
Friday of the 2nd week of Lent First reading - Genesis 37:3-4,12-13,17-28 Here we read how the brothers out of jealousy sold Joseph? Jealousy is dangerous because it makes you do anything to destroy the other person. It takes out God from your life. Once jealousy starts to form in our heart against a person, we don’t want him or her in our world. We find mistakes in what this person speaks, in what this person does. We feel irritated in his or her presence. We are ready to do anything to avoid this person. All these because I am jealous. We become jealous when we forget the plan of God for each person. We become jealous when we forget that God is our Father. We become jealous when we feel threatened by others because we don’t feel protected by God. Let’s reflect: Lent is the time to purify ourselves from jealousy by believing in the plan of God for me.
Thursday 9 March
Thursday of the 2nd week of Lent Saint Frances of Rome, Religious First reading - Jeremiah 17:5-10 The reading from the book of Jeremiah continues. He clearly tells us the difference between a person who puts his trust in man and a person who puts his trust in God. This is especially true when it comes to a difficult situation. For many of us, when we are in a crisis or in a hard situation, the first complaint is that there is no one to help us. But when we read this passage, this complaint has no value because we have the Lord to put our trust. When we turn to Lord the help is assured. When we turn to others, it depends upon different situations. This must become a habit. This must become automatic. We must understand the difference in trusting the Lord and trusting man or trusting in oneself. A curse on the man who puts his trust in man, who relies on things of flesh, whose heart turns from the Lord. He is like dry scrub in the wastelands: if good comes, he has no eyes for it, he settles in the parched places of the wilderness, a salt land, uninhabited. ‘A blessing on the man who puts his trust in the Lord, with the Lord for his hope. He is like a tree by the waterside that thrusts its roots to the stream: when the heat comes it feels no alarm, its foliage stays green; it has no worries in a year of drought, and never ceases to bear fruit. Let’s reflect: Lent is the time to reaffirm our trust in the Lord knowing the difference from trusting in oneself or others around.
Wednesday 8 March
Wednesday of the 2nd week of Lent Saint John of God, Religious First reading - Jeremiah 18:18-20 Here we see the adversaries of Prophet Jeremiah are plotting against Jeremiah. He is actually interceding for the same people before God. This happens often in our life. There are moments which our good intentions or our good actions are misunderstood or misinterpreted by others. Not only misinterpreted but even we will be judged bad by others. Then we will have the temptation to return evil. To do vengeance. Or even to stop doing good. These are not decisions of those who have a good relationship with God. We do good because of our relationship with God. We do things with good intention because of our good relationship with God. The way others judge us, interpret us or observe us is not a reason to change or to neglect our goodness. Let’s reflect: Lent is the time to gather energy to continue doing the good in spite of the misunderstandings of others.