6:27 pm

The Catholic Calendar for Wednesday, March 2, 2004
Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent

Scripture from today's Liturgy of the Word:
Deuteronomy 4:1,5-9
Psalm 147:12-13,15-16,19-20
Matthew 5:17-19

A reflection on today's Sacred Scripture:

In today's Gospel Jesus tells us that He comes to fulfill the law and commandments laid down by the prophets of previous generations, not to abolish what is already there.

I think this is an interesting message for us to contemplate as Christian Catholics. On the one hand Jesus comes to fulfill the scripture already set in His people's history. On the other hand Jesus does a very new thing by radically changing people's minds and hearts in the fulfillment of His promise.

During Lent we have the option to go through our yearly observance of Lent as we have anticipated, based on years gone by -- or we have the option of 'doing a new thing' -- of opening our minds and hearts to a new experience of Jesus so that we can become transformed and touch others in the process of our 2005 Lenten observance.

Today, let us ask Jesus to build us anew, that we may shed our unwanted or unrequired attachments, so that we can experience new freedom in Christ.

We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen

- Cliodhna Doyle
(cliadoyle at hotmail dot com)
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As we talked about a passion for God, a growing awareness of his presence, and a desire to do whatever I can to increase that, I realised that the thing which cultivated this passion in me, was to read and tell stories of Jesus.

This blog provides Daily stories of Jesus - some straight from various translations of the gospels, I hope about once a week- a re-told story. I find that the more I hear stories of Jesus , and the more we hear them, the more I discover what it means for us to have a passion for Jesus in our lives, and an deeper involvement with him.

As I ponder the stories I post, I am finding more and more that things hit me a few days later. What better to occupy my mind than stories of Jesus.

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