40 Shades of Lent by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Thursday in the Second Week of Lent, 09 March 2023 Jeremiah 17:5-10 >>> +++ <<< Luke 16:19-31
God our loving Father, let me come to you closer, let me get nearer to you in Jesus Christ present among the sick and suffering, among those we take for granted, in those we have forgotten in our family, in the church, and in the society.
Jesus said to the Pharisees: “There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day. And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table. Dogs even used to come and lick his sores.
Luke 16:19-21
Yes, O Lord Jesus, your parable continues to happen among us today despite our many technologies, we have grown more apart from each other not only in physical distance but worst even in heart as being kindreds in you.
Indeed, what you had told Jeremiah is most true even today, "More tortuous than all else is the human heart, beyond remedy; who can understand it?" (Jer. 17:9) but you alone, O Lord! Cleanse our hearts, incline our hearts to you, dear Jesus; let us be nearer to you than anyone or anything else; let us trust in you alone for it is in you only is found life and its fullness here and the hereafter. Amen.
