MASS READINGS
March 04, 2007 (Readings on USCCB website)
COLLECT PRAYER
God our Father, help us to hear your Son. Enlighten us with your word, that we may find a way to your glory. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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Between Moses and Elias Jesus shows forth His divine glory, thus foreshadowing His resurrection. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end of all things. Today's Mass places before us the transfigured Lord and the model toward Whom we must tend, and our own transfiguration as the goal we must attain. We attain this goal by a profound realization of our sinfulness and need of a Redeemer; by preserving purity of body and soul; by combatting our passions and carnal instincts and observing the commandments and most importantly by participating in the Mass. — Excerpted from Cathedral Daily Missal
The Station in Rome is in the church of St. Mary in Dominica, on Monte Celio. Tradition tells us that in this basilica was the diaconicum of which St. Lawrence had charge, and from which he distributed to the poor the alms of the Church.
Sunday Readings
The first reading is taken from the book of Genesis, 15:5-2, 17-18. Some 10 to 11 years after God's first covenant with Abram he and Sari remained childless. Abram has despaired to God that he has no offspring and that his servant will inherit his estate. God now makes His promise into a covenant.
The second reading is from the letter of Paul to the Philippians, 3:17, 4:1. This epistle today comes from St. Paul's warning against false teachers. The adversaries would seem to be Judaizers — itinerant preachers, who in the name of a higher perfection seek to impose upon Gentile converts the Levitical practices which were outdated by the new covenant; the covenant by which we were made children of God and were no longer His slaves.
The Gospel is from St. Luke, 9:28-36. "Listen to Him!": everything God wishes to say to mankind he has said through Christ, now that the fullness of time has come (cf. Heb 1:1). "Therefore," St. John of the Cross explains, "if any now should question God or desire a vision or revelation, not only would he be acting foolishly but he would be committing an offence against God, by not fixing his gaze on Christ with no desire for any new thing. For God could reply to him in this way: 'If I have spoken all things to you in my Word, which is my Son, and I have no other word, what answer can I give you now, or what can I reveal to you that is greater than this? Fix your eyes on him alone, for in him I have spoken and revealed to you all things, and in him you will find even more than what you ask for and desire....Hear him, for I have no more faith to reveal, nor have I any more things to declare'" (Ascent of Mount Carmel, book 2, chap. 22, 5). — The Navarre Bible - St. Luke
Things to Do:
- Begin praying the Prayer for the Second Week of Lent with your family.
- Read this article on appropriate Lenten Music — Be courageous, and begin implementing these principles within your home! Expose your children to worthwhile sacred music early on, and they will have a greater capacity to appreciate fine music throughout their life.
- Read Fr. Landry's homily for today.
Second Sunday of Lent
Station with Santa Maria in Domnica alla Navicella (St. Mary in Domnica):
The station church in Rome is in the church of St. Mary in Domnica, on Monte Celio. Tradition tells us that in this basilica was the diaconicum of which St. Lawrence had charge, and from which he distributed to the poor the alms of the Church.
For more on Santa Maria in Domnica alla Navicella, see:
For further information on the Station Churches, see The Stational Church.
