WE ARE CREATURES NOT GOD: LENT ACCORDING TO POPE FRANCIS

Lent is

A school.

A season.

A crash course.

An important reminder

of something too often forgotten.


Says the good Pope,

We are creatures.

We

Are

NOT

GOD!

We need to disabuse ourselves

of this utterly insane delusion

that we are masters, lords, movers, shakers and gods

in this life

and of the world.


We are NOT.


We're born yesterday.

We'll die tomorrow.

But from whence we came

And whereto after now

We really do not know!


We

Are

Not

GOD!


We are after all

Completely

At the mercy

of Him

who truly IS!

(photo not mine. credit to the owner)

GIFT TO LOLO KIKO (Icon of Filipino Holy Family for Pope Francis' Encounter with families, MOA - Arena)

LIGHT-BEARER

A strange insight that as we processed with lighted candles into the church earlier for the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple, I recalled that the name "lucifer," too, means "light-bearer."

As Christians we are called to be bearers not just of any "light" but ONLY the light of Christ.

To carry within us and to spread light other than that which comes from God is to be just another lucifer.

(Templon epistyle: Annunciation, Nativity and Presentation at the Temple, 

Monastery of St. Catherine, Sinai, second half of the 12th c.)