MARY, OUR MOTHER: Lenten Reflection:

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Lenten Reflection:

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Reflection by Father Ted – March 9, 2011 – written in Cebu, Philippines

My dearest Lord Jesus, once again I need to thank You for allowing me to begin another season of Lent as a priest.

You have called me to share in Your Priesthood which means to willingly participate in Your Public Life including Your Passion, Death and Resurrection.

You know me and You know my weaknesses.

You want me to know myself - including to know my weaknesses.

You want me to know my weaknesses so that I will willingly call upon You to help me so that I can be the holy priest You ordained me to be.

For only with Your help can I deal with these weaknesses.

And only when I seek and cooperate with the graces that You joyfully offer to me can I overcome these weaknesses.

It is in accepting Your help that I actually grow in Your grace and become the man and the priest that You desire me to be.

Satan also knows my weaknesses. He has observed me throughout my entire life. He has striven many times to tempt me to give into these weaknesses – these inclinations to sin against You, so that I may deprive myself of Your divine life and frustrate my ministry as Your priest.

I have given into these inclinations in the past. I have been conned by him. Yet I did not have to. You were always there ready and eager to assist me – if only I had called out to You for that help and then had cooperated with Your grace.

Even when I did give in – to his temptations, You did not abandon me. For You offered to me the grace of repentance. You prompted me to go to confession.

Sometimes I responded to Your promptings. Sometimes I resisted. Yet even when I resisted, You did not give up on me. You offered to me time and again this grace to repent. For Your love for me is so great.

Thank You Jesus for this love. Help me during this holy season to seek and accept Your help and become that holy priest that You desire me to be.

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PSALM 71 SPEAKS TO MY HEART

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me!

Be to me a rock of refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.

Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
you are he who took me from my mother's womb.
My praise is continually of you.

I have been as a portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
My mouth is filled with your praise,
and with your glory all the day.
Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.

For my enemies speak concerning me;
those who watch for my life consult together
and say, “God has forsaken him;
pursue and seize him,
for there is none to deliver him.”

O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me!
May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;
with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
who seek my hurt.

But I will hope continually
and will praise you yet more and more.
My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for their number is past my knowledge.

With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
Your righteousness, O God,
reaches the high heavens.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.

I will also praise you with the harp
for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
My lips will shout for joy,
when I sing praises to you;
my soul also, which you have redeemed.

And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
for they have been put to shame and disappointed
who sought to do me hurt.

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