3rd Sunday of Lent
First reading Exodus 3:1-8,13-15
This mysterious scene introduces us to the heart of revelation: God manifests himself as a Presence that calls, that speaks, that sends. He is not a distant, impersonal or abstract God, but a God who sees the suffering of his people, who hears the cry of the oppressed and comes down to free them. The burning bush is a living image of the Incarnation: God enters history without destroying it, but rather sanctifying it. Christ is the bush that burns with divine love, yet takes on our fragile humanity. The same Mystery is renewed in the Eucharist: under the humble signs of bread and wine, the real Presence of the Lord burns. And when God says: ‘I am who I am’, he offers us a very profound truth. He is the Being par excellence, eternal, faithful, present. Not a God constructed by human hands, but He who is, who remains, who accompanies us. To believe in this God means to enter into a living relationship with Him, to trust in his promise, to let ourselves be moulded by his will. Let’s reflect: Lent is being in His living Presence with a living response of relationship.
Don Giorgio