Whoever Loves Me

by Melanie on February 17, 2015

in Catholicism, Cursillo, Lent, Nonfiction, Spirituality, Your Daily Tripod

Note: On Tuesdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. 

And so it ends today, this part of ordinary time for the liturgical year. It ends with some sadness and challenge: In the first reading from Genesis 6, God is so grieved with his people that He starts over, sparing only Noah and his family and a few pairs of animals. In the Gospel reading from Mark 8, Jesus becomes a bit exasperated that, like the Pharisees and Herod, the disciples seem to be more focused on coming to their own conclusions than in seeing the ultimate authority before tripod_candles_20150217_microsoftclipartthem. It will be our prayer throughout Lent—Lord, let me trust; Lord, draw me nearer to you as I seek to remove the aspects of my life that keep me from You.

Something else also ends today: the alleluia goes away until the Easter vigil. And what lovely words to feed us in the coming weeks:

“Whoever loves me will keep my word, says the Lord; and my Father will love him and we will come to him.”

It is that promise of Christ, so beautifully expressed in John 14:23, that provides us with bread for this Lenten journey.

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