Saturday of the 1st week of Lent
Saint Casimir
First reading – Deuteronomy 26:16-19
“The Lord your God today commands you to observe these laws and customs; you must keep and observe them with all your heart and with all your soul”. Moses is speaking to the People of God about the observance of the laws and customs. When we hear the word, “law”, it appears as someone is imposing. Someone is dictating. We live in a world of laws of the civil society. But we should confuse the law which Moses is speaking and the civil laws. The Law of the Lord is different. How is it different? It is different because Moses is asking to observe them with all our heart and with all our soul. Nothing can be done with all our heart and with all our soul except love. There we understand how the Law of the Lord is different. The Law of the Lord is the Love of the Lord. It’s the love of God which calls for a response of love from us. We are loved by God, and we must respond to that love. Only with our love to God, the love of God will become productive in us. It’s like the good seed sown into the soil. The soil must welcome the seed and let it grow. He keeps loving us but only our loving response will bring changes in us, will bring in us the effects of that consecration. Let’s reflect: Lent is the time to analyze whether I am seeing the Law of the Lord as the Love of the Lord.