Joel 2: 12-18
Feb. 26, 2020 Christian Brothers, Iona College, New Rochelle, N.Y.
“The
Lord was stirred for his land and took pity on his people” (Joel 2: 18).
We can
agree that our land is in trouble—great political unrest, worry about an
epidemic, all manner of social concerns—and the latest polls on Catholics are
hardly comforting.
Yet the
Lord invites us to return to him to receive his pity (Joel 2:12-13), and Paul
tells us this is an acceptable time (2 Cor 6:2)—which is the reason for our
Lent, for today’s ritual.
Any
resolution of our concerns begins with us individually—as followers of Jesus,
as faithful religious, as evangelizers of the communities of the young whom we
serve. But it has to start with our own
hearts—“return to me with your whole heart, says the Lord” (Joel 2:12)—with our
commitment to prayer, to fasting from vice, to giving the alms of our brotherly
love.
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