Dan. 9, 4-10;
Sal 78;
Lc. 6, 36-38
'Lord, do not treat us as our sins deserve' , we repeated in Psalm ; 'your compassion overtake us quickly because we are exhausted ...'
In presence of the Lord with a sincere heart we are sinners. We call that we are the Lord's people, his chosen people and loved - 'we thy people and sheep of your flock' - but we recognize that we are a sinful people. It is our personal sin of each one of us, but is also feeling guilty people. It's
expressed in the prayer of Daniel, at first reading. 'We have sinned, committed iniquity, and have been ill, have rebelled and we have strayed from your commandments and rules ...' and pinpoints the prophet all this evil heart of man, which rejects the commandment of the Lord but also those who rejected as envoys of the Lord come to call to conversion. 'We listened to your servants the prophets ...'
In this Lenten journey we are doing with the desire of purification and renewal of our lives is how we feeling well, people sinner who wants to become the Lord. To the extent we are taking steps and trying to come to the Lord we are seeing the reality of our life, our sinfulness that drags us along the path of coldness, infidelity to the Lord, of sin. Also how many times we turn a deaf ear to calls us to the Lord. Continually in prayer and liturgy we saying that we are sinners and ask mercy and compassion of the Lord. 'Have mercy on us' , repeat many times at different times throughout the liturgical celebration.
So honestly have to feel before the Lord, but we appeal His mercy and compassion. So listen to what the gospel today tells us that invites us to bring good attitudes in our hearts, mercy, compassion, forgiveness, acceptance and acceptance of others, generosity in all aspects of our lives. Although often hard for us to have such good attitudes to others we do because we seem compassionate and merciful heart of God. With His grace we can do. He gives us the power of his Spirit for us to have such good attitudes in our hearts.
"Be merciful as your Father is compassionate judge not and will not be judged, condemn not and not be condemned, forgive and you will be forgiven, freely and you shall receive ... '
Many times we have proclaimed and prayed with the psalms ' the Lord is compassionate and merciful, slow to anger, abounding in love ' . So now Jesus asks us to act the same way when we approach humbly ask Him to have compassion and mercy on us who are sinners.
This is also pray the prayer Jesus taught us when we're going to apologize: 'forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us ...' We forgive because we want to be forgiven. And hear the parable of Jesus teaches us to be compassionate to others and to forgive to be forgiven us. We know that if we love, we forgive our many sins.
'We do not try, Lord, as our sins deserve' , we ask the Lord. But not only the Lord we become when we recognize our sin and ask forgiveness, but at the same time begin to have good attitudes and feelings toward others.
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