Deut. 30, 15-20;
Sal 1;
Lc. 9, 22-25
Lent is a time of Christian renewal, resuming the path begun by our baptism, doing, in following Christ, a new passage from this world to the Father. It is an invitation to Easter. We are preparing for the Easter celebrations, but we go live with a sense of Easter every day.
This almost the beginning of Lent, just the start yesterday, I think with the liturgy and the Word of God offered to us which we want to remember is our goal. Jesus in the Gospel tells us what's going to be your Easter . 'The Son of Man must suffer greatly, be rejected by the elders, chief priests and lawyers, to be executed and resurrected the third day' . And before our eyes appears an invitation to life.
Invitation to life because it is an invitation to live as Jesus. And the life of Jesus was love. And love is when we give life and love life because we are filled with life. Some might think that when we love and we would be wasting abrasion factors for love life, but what Jesus teaches us is different. We know that there are other things that the world offers and the world what mood are triumphs and gains, vanities and then appearances are all empty.
We can not save your life but the life we \u200b\u200bhave to give it and when we we're filling more than life. 'Whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it' . So clear is Jesus in the way proposed.
is true that get in the way of love like Jesus would lead to suffering and the cross. For many reasons or reasons. When we love, for example, although we know well that is what We do, however there are times when it can cost us. Because there is the struggle within ourselves because we always can appear to outbreaks of selfishness and self-esteem, pride or confidence, and so much more. And it costs us. We tear the soul sometimes the temptation to endure. But if we remain faithful to our Lord delivers reward us with a joy in the soul that has no comparison with anything.
Jesus tells us' you follow me let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and come with me. " But we know, He goes before us, He becomes our Cyrene to help carry the cross, He gives us the power of his Spirit. It is worth our journey to follow Jesus. It is worth giving everything for love, because that to us is life, really live.
We have to decide really. As Deuteronomy told us' Look, I have set before you life and death, good and evil. " What we want to choose? What we are really looking? Are we truly decide the way of life? Let's follow the ways of the Lord. Seek at all times what is your will. We do not want anything but God.
seek ' that life as we passed the day of baptism, when "to participate in the death and resurrection of Christ" came to us "a joyful and exciting adventure of the disciple' ' as told us the Pope in his Lenten message. We want this to be reality in our lives, because often tempted by so many things we have lost the intensity of our faith and our following of Jesus.
Lent This way we are doing helps us to review, to restore many things that have lost their luster, restore the authenticity of our Christian life. Sink our roots into the water of life and grace as 'the man who has put his trust in the Lord. " We may well the fruits of holiness that the Lord asks of us our lives leaves will not wilt.
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