by Janice Toh
Today, we enter the Second Sunday of Lent. As we continue our journey through Lent, we are encouraged not to lose sight of Christ. Perhaps our sincere efforts to remain faithful to our Lenten sacrifices have started to feel like a struggle. A courageous decision to confront an unhealthy passion or vice seems futile after trying and failing again. We may have started our Lenten journey seeking, walking joyfully even. But discouraged, have we distanced our hearts from Christ and His love?
Pope Benedict XVI invites us today to be “transfigured in hope”—that the experience of Jesus’ Transfiguration is the way of the cross, not on a road to death but rather through death to greater life. In this truth, our ‘yes’ to God is won afresh every day in the situations of daily life when we abandon our “I” over and over again as we place ourselves at Jesus’ disposal. Therefore, may we let the love of Jesus in His death and resurrection strengthen our hope, and may we keep our gaze fixed on Christ, the author of our salvation and perfecter of our faith.
Reflection Question:
What habits or patterns do I need to lay to rest so that I can rise with Jesus at Easter, renewed and strengthened? What grace do I want to ask for to persevere on this Lenten journey?
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