Fourth Week of Lent, Fr Rick shares some thoughts on the Sunday Mass Readings

The Scriptures tell us, in both the Old and New Testaments, that we as humans tire God out.

I think it is fair to say in the human community, we tire each other out too.

Even more, often enough in life, we can get pretty tired of ourselves.

Yet, we matter enough to God to elicit God's compassion, anger, pity, and yet constancy. Are we important enough to each other to elicit the same? Anger is the easy one. But compassion and constancy are sorely needed.

God's constancy is manifest in the first reading, by the end of the Babylonian captivity.

God's constancy is manifest in the Gospel when, reflecting the image of Moses raising the fiery serpent on a pole to heal the snake-bitten, the elevated and Crucified Christ is announced to be the remedy for all of life's ills.

From the worst to best.

By raising up, God can start pretty low, and bring salvation to fruition.

In common wisdom, God can write straight with crooked lines. How blessed we would be to be graced by God with this gift, within our own hearts on related to the hearts of others- to be able to start with the worse and bring from it the beautiful prose of God.

The video: https://youtu.be/dklUL9rmJi4