Day 11th : March 15, 2014: Yahweh is to be your God.

Day 11:

March 15, 2014:      

                          Yahweh is to be your God.

At the conclusion of the spiritual exercises for lent, Pope Francis gave thanks to the Retreat Master by saying, “you have planted a seed in us. The Lord will send us the rain to make the seed grow and bear fruit”. Love and respect for the Word of God comes from a heart that has been broken and freed from self-preoccupation and fear. This is the ‘big heart open to God’ and God’s own initiatives. Once we are completely open to God, we are ready to imitate God and to love as God loves, think as God thins, act as God acts, and treat others as God would treat them. Jesus says be “perfect just as your heavenly Father is perfect”. If we imitate this love of God then no one will be excluded from God’s love whether divorced, separated, LGBT, etc. we are to love everyone. No longer can we love only those with whom we are close and are bound in such a way that we feel ‘safe’ with them. There cannot be barriers that we raise between ‘us’ and ‘them’. Love does not create barriers but tears down walls that separate. So Jesus holds us to a higher standard as imitators of His love and His way. Are we really proud to be his people ‘peculiarly his own’? Are we not called by God out of sheer mercy and not for any merit of our own? May we make God proud by living lives worthy of our calling as God’s own sons and daughters especially this season of lent.  Top of Form

God Bless you always!
Sincerely Yours,
Rev. Fr. Cyriac Chandy Mattathilanickal, MS

Wishing you and yours A Holy Lent!

Rev. Fr. Tom Puthusseril, M.S.

Shrine Director