SATURDAY I LENT : You are God’s children

And today the LORD is making this agreement with you: you are to be a people peculiarly his own, as he promised you;
and provided you keep all his commandments, he will then raise you high in praise and renown and glory above all other nations he has made, and you will be a people sacred to the LORD, your God, as he promised.

(Dt. 26:17-19)

You are God’s children, the brothers of Jesus Christ, heirs to his eternal kingdom, chosen portion of his inheritance; you are, in the words of St. Peter, a holy nation, you are kings, you are priests, you are in some way gods, You are gods, children of the Most High.

So lift up your spirits, that your defeated souls may breathe, grovel no longer on the ground: You are gods, children of the Most High. (Ps. 81:6).”

Eugene de Mazenod’s sermon to the poor of Aix en Provence, 1813

REFLECTION

Father, I thank You that You can heal broken hearts and bitter memories and damaged self esteem.  Thank You that patterns can be erased and reversed.  Thank You that You turn nobody’s into somebody’s.  Jesus, I ask You to help people to begin seeing themselves today through Your eyes of love.

Adapted from: https://www.reunioncommunity.org/post/2017/11/12/seeing-yourself-as-god-sees-you-seeing-through-god-s-eyes