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Ash Wednesday

SMM India
Published by in Lenten Homilies · 16 February 2021
Tags: L.H.1
17th, February, Wednesday (Ash Wednesday).
I.     Joel 2:12-18
II.   2 Cor 5:20–6:2
III.  Mt 6:1-6, 16-18
Theme: Return to Me
Lent invites us into a deep joy, for we are known by God as imperfect people but we are loved by God and forgiven.  The forgiving love of God extends to us is like an invitation to renew our relationship with God.
Yes, it is to be a period of simplicity, tearing down and clearing away the things that are getting in to the way between us and God.  Lent can be a time to look at ourselves and honestly see who we are.  But it is a time of great hope, as we realize how much God longs for a relationship with us. Today many of us will have our foreheads marked by a cross with ashes.  It is a shocking symbol of our own mortality and of the sacrifice Jesus made for us with his death.  It is also a public marking that reminds us and others of God's message to us, "I created you for myself and gave you my only son to free you from sin and death. The ashes on our forehead are more than a symbol of our own mortality. They are a sign of God fighting for our freedom from this world, liberating us from the clutches of so many things that drag us away from God.
Today Jesus is calling us to himself in an ever-deeper way, inviting us into his endless forgiveness and asking us to return to his loving embrace.  With tears of joy, we can accept his outstretched arms.
 
                                                                                                                           Bro. Ruban SMM
                                                                                                                                                 II BTH



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