Is 58, 1-9;
Sal 50;
Mt 9, 14-15
The season of Lent is a moment for us to intensify all our devotional practices in a desire to feel closer to God and his grace and mercy upon us. Pious deeds arise that it is traditional at this time, while hand of the Church try to do more intense our prayer or our hearing of the Word of God. Are time and opportunity to offer sacrifices and penance to the Lord as the traditional fasting and abstinence are trying to practice more regularly these days. Prayer, fasting and almsgiving are like the three special events are proposed at this time so special.
But the Word of God that we will offer in the liturgy of these days, from the beginning of Lent, is to enlighten us all why we want to give you all its depth and meaning. We danger and the temptation to do things just like that, in a ritual but it can become routine making it lose its true meaning.
is what you want today especially to enlighten the Word of God that we have been proclaimed. The prophet's word is, so to speak, a sense of denunciation of what the people are not doing with the true depth and meaning. 'Shout at full voice, unceasingly raises his voice like a trumpet ...' saith the Lord, 'complaint to my people their offenses to the house of Jacob their sins ...'
They are pious people apparently, but something went wrong. Prayers, prayers, fasting, mortification, but at the same time his life is full of sin. Have not been truly converted to God. What is the fast that pleases God? Which is attached to a life away from conversion to the Lord and repenting of all sin, but also stems from a heart fair and merciful to others.
is what the Lord denounces those people. 'Look, you fast from quarrels and disputes, merciless pummeling ... seek your interests and apremiáis to your server ... is fasting that the Lord wants for the day when that man is mortified? Is that what you call fasting, a day acceptable to the Lord? "
Will we be the Lord wanted to say something to us? What we're asking? Just what we were saying that we practice now especially in this Lenten season, our practices of piety, our sacrifices and our penitence, our prayers and all the prayer and worship that we give the Lord is always something born of a pure heart full of love and mercy.
be merciful, compassionate, helpful to those around us, we live in a true spirit of communion and love knowing accept and forgive, avoiding anything that could damage or hurt the brother, who is on our side, banished from our lips hurtful or insulting words, no We never derogatory or disqualifying attitudes towards others. So our life will be pleasing to the Lord. Is that the true sacrifice, the most holy offering since we do love the Lord.
Put these attitudes in our hearts, and doing all such acts of love manifest what is our true conversion to the Lord. We will be doing what pleases the Lord, fill our lives with love . "The fast that I want is this: open the prisons unfair to blow the locks of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, break all the traps, your bread with the hungry, house the homeless poor, to clothe the look naked, and not shut you down to your own flesh ... ' All this translates into those attitudes of love, openness, understanding, mercy and communion of which we spoke earlier.
not forget that that is what we are going to look at the sunset of life. Remember what Jesus says will be the Final Judgement.
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