Today’s readings at Mass explore a forgiving and loving God, full of mercy, who longs for the lost to return. Here’s today’s reflection from the daily Mass.
BIBLE READINGS: You can find the readings for Saturday of the Second Week of Lent can be found here
It’s impossible to escape commercials, particularly if we use the internet. All the time our data is being collected and used so that paying companies can reach their target audience.
So searching for a new phone or a new car on one page will later conveniently deliver an advert on our our social media timeline for the very thing we’ve shown an interest in.
In the gospel reading today, the religious leaders are disgruntled that Jesus is attracting the wrong kind of audience, that he is spending time and eating with them. What kind of rabbi is he, to allow himself to be tarnished by such people or to given them the time of day? The parable that Jesus then tells, displays a God who is loving and longing for his lost son to return, despite the mistakes he has made. He rejoices when a sinner returns, when the lost is found.
There is a story told of an old man who was praying by the River Ganges when he saw a scorpion struggling for its life, caught in the branches stretched over the water. As the old man reached out to save the scorpion, he was constantly stung. “You stupid old man,” shouted a passer by. “Don’t you know that the scorpion will kill you if you carry on trying to help it?” The old man replied, “Just because it is the nature of the scorpion to sting, why should I give up my nature to save?”
In the first reading, Micah cries out in praise of God, “Who is a God like you,” he says, “pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression?”
Mass today is at S Mary’s Church at 11.30am
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