31st Day of Lent: April 4, 2014: “Let us lie in wait for the righteous man” (Wisdom 2:1)

31^st Day of Lent:

  April 4, 2014:

   “Let us lie in wait 

          for the righteous man”

                               (Wisdom 2:1)

The presence of a righteous person, a person of moral integrity, simplicity, humility and Truth, is disturbing, inconvenient, disconcerting, to the ‘ungodly’. This is true for those who are overcome with passion, hatred, prejudice, ambition, jealousy, and not guided by reason.

We see that in the rejection of Jesus conveniently by the Jewish authorities even though he was all that the prophets predicted, the Messiah, but the Messiah did not come from the ‘higher ranks’ nor from the ‘royal palaces’.  So they seek to arrest him. Arrest Who? The Messiah?

The Messiah’s way was one of absorbing all the aggression, passion, suffering, and even death and finally resurrect from the dead so that the Messiah has the final victory and not the ‘ungodly’.

How often we put to death the “messiahs” of our time because it is not convenient to follow their lead. 

In the sanctuary of the human heart, there lies the true conscience, the wisdom, the truth, the righteousness and all that is godly. When we move away from the center of our being – the image of God in us we – fall prey to the passions of life that will bring us ruin and misery.

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Stay at the Center. That is where Jesus is and was and will always be.

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 If we are overcome by the genuineness of Jesus’ authenticity, his miracles, his sincerity, then you are willing to follow him without knowing how it will all come out with the danger of being hounded by the same authorities who were plotting to kill the Messiah. How willing am I to swallow at times all the burdens, misunderstandings, sufferings that come my way because of my witness to Jesus? Are there Gospel challenges that I continue to ignore because it is not convenient for my life style?

Lent is a time to ‘go to the deep’.

Jesus said, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me; let him drink who believes in me” (John 7:37).

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

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