THURSDAY OF THE FOURTH WEEK OF LENT - 2022

LENT 2022

DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS

God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son:
everyone who believes in him has eternal life. JN 3:16

EXODUS 32:7-14 ©

My Soul's Beloved,

Moses is a type of Christ - all that God had called Him to do has to now be seen through the lens and the light of the Gospels. We read the letters of the New Testament writers who saw this clearly and have left us a rich legacy so we can see for ourselves how the Holy Spirit inspired them to understand these mysteries of our faith.

You came into the earth at a time when the world was in chaos spiritually and God's chosen people were being crushed under the heel of Rome just as they once were crushed under the heel of the Egyptians. At the appointed time God sent His only Son into the world in human flesh to reveal to us once and forever the marvelous love of God for His children.

The world from one generation to the next continues to sin and apostatize and the level of degeneracy keeps descending lower and lower until it would seem that they can sink no lower and we are amazed when they do. The worship of molten calves continues as the world makes idols of the strange gods of wealth, power, the world, and the flesh.  

God's anger blazed out against the stubborn, hard-hearted people in the wilderness and destroyed many of them but in the final days, after sending us a stream of prophets God finally sent us His Son and we treated You no differently, Beloved. 

Moses pleaded successfully for the people then but they continued to stray. Today You are the one, holy, and most powerful intercessor before the throne of God, and Your plea for every sinner is heard and we are saved. God always relents when He sees us, poor sinners, through Your wounds.

JOHN 5:31-47 ©

My Soul's Beloved,

You are God's testimony of love to a wounded, fallen world. You stand before God pleading on our behalf and Your Father who sent You into the world to save it has compassion on us for Your sake.

You performed with power great signs and miracles that testified to the whole world that You came from God and were God - but the greatest of all Your Works is the work of our salvation that You wrought on the Cross at Calvary. We believe or we disbelieve at our peril.

What You said to the teachers of the law You say to all who study the Scripture both Catholics and Christians - we cannot have a cafeteria approach to Your Word. Your Word uncompromisingly clear:

‘You study the scriptures,
believing that in them you have eternal life;
now these same scriptures testify to me,
and yet you refuse to come to me for life!

How can we, if we cherry-pick what we choose to believe and discount what does not suit our style of thinking or because we are people pleasers seeking human approval? 

Now is the time for us all to come together as one people of God, united in Creed and united under Peter if not we risk finding ourselves judged by those who prophesied about You long before Your incarnation.