Confession of Sins!

 

26th Week Friday in Ordinary Time

Year One

Bar 1:15-21

Confession of Sins!

15 And you shall say: The Lord our God is in the right, but there is open shame on us today, on the people of Judah, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, 16 and on our kings, our rulers, our priests, our prophets, and our ancestors, 17 because we have sinned before the Lord. 18 We have disobeyed him, and have not heeded the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in the statutes of the Lord that he set before us. 19 From the time when the Lord brought our ancestors out of the land of Egypt until today, we have been disobedient to the Lord our God, and we have been negligent, in not heeding his voice. 20 So to this day there have clung to us the calamities and the curse that the Lord declared through his servant Moses at the time when he brought our ancestors out of the land of Egypt to give us a land flowing with milk and honey. 21 We did not listen to the voice of the Lord our God in all the words of the prophets whom he sent to us,

Meditation

Israel is aware of their constant fickleness of going away from God. God has not abandoned them. He went after them to bring them back to the straight path. One can note the acceptance of the sins of Israel against God. Any sin is a breaking away from God and one another. This causes division between God and man, among the persons and in the community of faithfulness. The way back is to repent and make reparation and follow the ways of the Lord. This constant tendency in the people of Israel manifests the human nature to go away from God and our own tendency to rebel and trespass the laws and commandments of God.  Being aware of this insight let’s take care to return to God, time and again in reconciliation to prosperity and peace in the Lord.

Do we learn to go back to God in tears?

Year Two

Job 38:1, 12-21; 40:3-5

God’s Ways are Wonderful!

God poses many questions about the wonder of the world to Job to make him realize that he is not in control of the world and its ways. Anyone who observes the world and wonders; trusts that there is a force in control of everything. We believers call it God. God has power over nature and human beings. How nice to know that God is there to regulate the world and its movements.

On Knowing the power and God’s purpose in this world and for humans; Job submits to God and his ways. God wishes only good for the creation and the humans. Job suffered immensely but knowing the power of God and the purpose of God for him; Job surrenders himself to God. He decides not to express anything against God but accepts God’s plan for him.

Do we surrender ourselves to God?

Lk 10:13-16

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the deeds of power done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes (Lk 10:13).

The Lord did powerful deeds in Chorazin and Bethsaida but people were not moved to repentance. It is always the case with the human beings. We are not moved by the great deeds of the Lord. The wonders and marvelous deeds of the Lord do not bother us. We are lost in the world and its allurements. We lose sense of history, events of our life instantly and forget about our responsibility towards God and the world around us and go astray. The Lord invites us time and again with opportunities to come back to him. We need to take time to repent and come to  Him, time and again to live good life.

Do I make use of the moments of prayer to repent and come back to God's ways?

Fr Putti Anthaiah, sdb

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