We hear from different prophets in the Old Testament during the holy season of Lent. Today, the prophet Micah asserts that God wants the sinner to repent as God extends his love and mercy to us in the reality of our lives. This message from Micah probably came at the time the Jewish people were returning to Jerusalem from the exile in Babylon in the sixth century BC. They struggled to return after their exile in the midst of the hostility around them, trying to regain their faith and their religious traditions. Micah states that God will forgive them and pardon them their iniquities, that God will not persist in his anger toward them for their sins, but grant the clemency. We offered confessions today as a part of our commemoration of the First Saturday devotion called by the apparition of Our Lady of Fatima. Like the message from the prophet Micah, like the message of the prodigal son in the Gospel today, God calls us to him through our Lady of Fatima. God calls us to examine our lives during the holy days of Lent, to return to prayer, fasting, and works of charity. May we hear the call of the Lord today through these messages.
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