Second Sunday of Lent

Readings: Gen 15:5-12, 17-18; Phil 3:17-4:1; Lk 9:28b-36

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From the Gospel: “Then from the cloud came a voice which said, ‘This is my Son, my Chosen One.  Listen to him’” (Lk 9:35).

Thought for the day: All conflict in the Church, yes, all discussion about the truth of religions, all inter-faith meetings focus again and again on Him, on Christ.  How often I hear, “What would Jesus have done? Jesus would have decided in quite a different way!”  How often both sides, the right and the left, the liberals and the conservatives, try to use him for their ends.  Again and again we must try to discover the true picture of Jesus under all the coats of paint over his real look, under all the distortions of his person.  We see then that historical research about him is important and also fruitful, but that it can really only light up the face of Jesus Christ and make it speak to us in a limited way.  In this it is like archeology, which has yielded many good results.  Yet we cannot understand the people who lived at that time by looking at stones.  We can only understand them when we can read the signs they left behind and then try to transfer to our situation what is communicated in those signs.  A basic condition for doing this is that we be searchers, that we never give up searching and make room for our longing, that we trust God in everything, that we do not come to him with mistrust, that we believe him capable of becoming man, and that he can speak to us in Jesus Christ. (Bishop Dr. Reinhard Marx)