Well Lent has indeed begun, so let’s do our best to make this Lent a Retreat with Jesus to Jesus. Pope Francis said, “This haste, this everything right now, does not come from God. If we get worked up about the right now, we forget what remains forever: we follow the passing clouds and lose sight of the sky.” In Psalm 104 we hear, “Bless the Lord, my soul! Lord how great you are clothed in majesty and glory, wrapped in light as in a robe!” “When we fall in love with Jesus, the world and everything in it changes, it changes because we begin to see it [the world] through the eternal lens.” [Deacon George Kelly]
“Myths express not historical events but great necessities and rhythms of nature. And that is why they are set in illo tempore (once upon a time), or a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away …. No one wonders exactly when Hercules was born or on what planet Luke Skywalker went to school, for those characters aren’t part of the real world but rather symbolic representations of timeless truths.
Many people are tempted today to construe the story of Jesus’ Resurrection as a mythic tale, a symbolic narrative expressive of the life force or regenerative power of nature. But as C.S. Lewis observed, those who think the Resurrection is simply another myth haven’t read many myths. Jesus’ story is not set in illo tempore, but in a very definite, historically verifiable period of time, when Herod was tetrarch of Galilee and Pontius Pilate was the Roman governor of Judea …. All of these first witnesses, with the exception of Saint John, went to their deaths defending the truth of what they taught.” (The Magnificat, “A Light Unto My Path, Easter Sunday, Very Rev. Robert Barron, p.249)
Lent prepares us to celebrate the Lord’s Resurrection and our salvation.
Saint Joseph, pray for us.
Saint Andre Bessette intercede for us.
May God Be Blessed!
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