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February 9, 2021“But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what
your right is doing, so that your almsgiving may be secret. And your Father who sees in secret will repay you.” -- Mt 6:3-4
As we begin our Lenten journey today, Ash Wednesday, let us examine our ways of sacrifice, ways of love: almsgiving, fasting and prayer. Each sacrifice is a gift offered freely and sincerely. Pope Francis reminds us that as Lent begins, “we begin on our path to conversion as individuals and as a community.” And in this conversion, “we must give way to the central Gospel virtue of love – love for all. Charity, love is the sharing with the one we love in all things. Love makes us similar, it creates equality; it breaks down walls and eliminates distances. God did this with us.” The Holy Father teaches that “the logic of the incarnation and the cross” is “God’s logic, the logic of love.”
During this time of Lent, let us each look into our heart, the deepest part of our being, and let us honestly examine our relationship with God and with each other. Let us take our first steps on our “path to conversion” by using God’s logic of love.
Christ's appearance in our midst has made it undeniably clear that changing the human heart and changing human society are not separate tasks, but are as interconnected as the two beams of the cross. -- Henri Nouwen
