Scripture Reflections for the Second Sunday of Lent
Year C, Lectionary 27
How attentive are we to God in our lives? God is always inviting us to enter into the divine, to elevate to heaven, to enter into relationship with God. Let us not try to remain in our current space but join Jesus on his journey to the cross and glory.
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“So if you want a really beautiful uplifting letter of Paul, read the letter to the Philippians. If you want to hear Paul furious, read the letters of the Galatians.”
“Maybe that's our invitation too, to listen to the voices that had been silenced, to listen to the cries of the Earth that are wounded and forgotten, to listen to the one who speaks not just on the mountain tops but in the valleys too”
“As we continue this journey, let us pray that all the stumbling blocks may become stepping stones leading us from one level of glory to another”
“Faith means motion, faith means action”
“So it's going to be a new exodus and Jesus in Luke chapter 9 is being revealed as the one who's going to inaugurate that new exodus”
“If you want to hear from God, if you want clarity in your mission, if you want the strength and courage to fulfill that mission then you're going to need to climb your own lonely mountain...but climbing a lonely mountain is not easy”
“the first step to take is to know yourself because if you do not know yourself, you cannot be yourself. Another way to put it is: our mission flows from our identity.”
“Note: we are to 'listen to him,' regardless of how challenging or perplexing that might be. This means, above all, that we become a people formed, informed and reformed by God’s word.”
“let us sit in the certainty of what our hearts tell us, these hearts that were created by God, for God”
“Some battles, Church, just ain't worth fighting for. I know one that is. It's my seat in the kingdom of heaven.”
“God meets us right where we are, and in the ordinariness of our own lives, but we too have a responsibility to pause, to listen, and to open our eyes to see what God is asking of us”
“Jesus Christ wants to show us his divine glory. If we don't go up to the mountain with him and give him a chance to fill us with his graces, we won't be ready when the future comes.”
“Disciples then and now may be confused about what we are experiencing but we rely on God and Jesus to guide our attempts at responding to the circumstances before us”
“if you think all you are is what you can do then you're missing the whole message that God has been trying to send us. You are his beloved, you are his chosen one and all you have to do is listen to Christ”
“Brothers and sisters in Christ, are we loyal or are we spoiled?”
