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March 9, 2024Return to the Lord! This is the word we hear since the very first day of Lent. Returning implies going back to the place we came from. Returning implies a journey. Usually on every journey there is some kind of transformation. When we return to a place, after several years, we are not the same. We come from a place of love, and we are longing to go back to that same place. In our journey of life, of our Christian life, we walk to return to the Lord, our place of love.
To return to our place of love we follow the way of love that Jesus Christ taught us in a very concrete way, caring for oneself, the other, and creation. The only way to arrive at our place of love is through Christian love in which mercy, God’s desire, becomes our lifestyle (Hosea 6:6). This becomes clear in the parable of the tax collector, who recognizes his own woundedness and his need for God while the pharisee is relying on his virtuous deeds and judging the tax collector.
Returning means journeying with oneself, others, and God. In this journey together, if we are honest and humble enough, we will see our true selves. If we accept this truth about ourselves, we are then about to embark on one of the greatest journeys of our life, the journey of transformation and growth in love, mercy, and compassion, which will lead us to the place where we come from.
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