The refrain in today's psalm calls out to
us today during these first few days of our Lenten journey: “A heart contrite and humbled, O God, you
will not spurn.” Indeed, in the twentieth and twenty-first century, there are
many who do not have a contrite or humble heart before God. One young man on the pilgrimage to Santiago,
a brilliant law student from Geneva Switzerland asked me these questions as a
priest: Why would someone go to your church each week? Why would someone believe in God? Whist difference does it make his life? Here really was sincere about these
questions. So many in our modern world
take the same stance. So many in the
modern world have spurned Christianity for secularism.
We have to be willing to open ourselves
to God's grace, to be open to his will calling out to us in life. As we begin our Lenten journey this week, we
can listen to the words of Pope Benedict:
"Lent stimulates us to let the word of God penetrate our life and
in this way to know the fundamental truth: who we are, where we come from,
where we must go, what path we must take in life." God's word needs to be able to penetrate our
lives, to lead us and guide us and change our hearts. If that I'd not the case, then we are not
letting God be God. We are not humbling
our hearts.
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