READINGS:
1 R : Jer 20 :10 - 13.
Ps 17 : 2 - 3a, 3bc - 4, 5 - 6, 7.
Gos : Jn 10 :31 - 42.
FROM TODAY'S READINGS LET US DRAW THESE LESSONS.
1. THE FIRST READING AND THE RESPONSORIAL PSALM EXHORT US TO RELY ONLY ON GOD THE ALMIGHTY.
" LIKE A COURAGEOUS SOLDIER GOD STOOD BY ME..... .. " WAS THE EXPERIENCE OF PROPHET JEREMIAH.
THE PSALMIST CALLS GOD AS THE TOWER AND THE ARMAMENT.
2. THE GOSPEL NARRATES THE MANY DIFFICULTIES OF JESUS IN THE PROCLAMATION OF THE KINGDOM.
THE JEWS REFUSE TO ACCEPT HIM; LIFT STONES TO KILL HIM AND REJECT HIM OUTRIGHT. THEREFORE JESUS HAS ONLY THE 'FATHER' IN HIS SIDE. HIS ' HOUR ' IS STILL AWAITED. THE HOUR IN ST. JOHN IS NOTHING BUT THE CRUCIFICTION AND RESURRECTION OF JESUS BY WHICH HE SHOWS THE WORLD HE IS " CHRIST ".
LET US USE THE LENTEN SEASON TO UNDERSTAND THE DEEPER MYSTERIES OF GOD AND CHRISTIANITY.
