Homily for Thursday
3d Week of Lent
March 12, 2026
Jer 7: 23-28
Christian Brothers, St. Joseph’s Residence, N.R.
Thru Jeremiah, the Lord laments his people’s infidelity,
expressed in disobedience to his commands.
Obedience would express their faithfulness, obedience that not only
hears and absorbs his commands but also carries them out.
Elsewhere in this chapter, Jeremiah identifies their
infidelities: idolatry, of course, but
also oppression of resident aliens, orphans, and widows—the most vulnerable
members of society; the shedding of innocent blood and unjust dealing with
their fellow Israelites (7:5-6).
You and I can use Lent to resolve greater obedience to the
Gospel and our rule of life: faithful
prayer, charity toward our brothers, moral support for the Congregation’s
mission. We can offer our Lenten sacrifices,
however small they be, as atonement for the infidelities of Christians, which
are numberless according to what we hear and read.
We pray to be faithful ourselves; the collect put it as
“pressing forward all the more eagerly toward the worthy celebration of the
Paschal Mystery.” May this
celebration of the mystery today both express and advance our faithful response
to God’s love.
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