Saturday of the First Week of Lent
Today's Readings
Today's Reflection
Attached to the right doorpost of every observant Jewish home is a piece of parchment with Bible verses on it, a few inches long, rolled up inside a decorated case. It’s called a mezuzah, and it indicates that the residents are determined to keep God’s law as set down by Moses. It doesn’t have all 613 commandments of that law, but it does have the declaration that there is only one God and that he is to be loved above everything. “Take to heart these words which I command you today. . . . Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates,” reads Deuteronomy 6:6-9.Jesus’ New Covenant doesn’t make home-decorating demands on his disciples; Jesus himself never had a doorway of his own on which to attach a mezuzah. But a crucifix placed somewhere in our homes is a good reminder of what he says in today’s Gospel: that we are to love our neighbors regardless of whether they love us. What better example of that is there than the one Jesus set on the cross?
Paul S.
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