Readings: Is 58.1-9 / Ps 50 / Mt from 9.14 to 15
FAST
Today we take a little 'food from our tables. We are invited to fasting to convert our hearts to God does so voluntarily and peacefully, so that within us we recover another hunger to do good. The Readings the liturgy offers us want to ensure that this act of penance in the right direction.
"Not as fast as you do today," cries out loud at the prophet (Isaiah 58.4). We have not yet begun to mortify, and we have already achieved by a correct reading, which wants to avoid believing in relationship with God, without actually be. There is no way of doing penance in his eyes is just a 'noise' (58.4), useless and annoying. The stinging words of the prophet refers to that superficial gestures of living men, without any harmony with the daily life, who may still be far from justice, truth and mercy. There 'are mortifying "(58.5), but remains in the" crimes "and" sins "(58.1). He lives a foolish and vain worship, which puts us in an ambiguous way, where before you even think that is basically useless mortification, if he does not change our lives, "Why fast if you do not see it, mortified, if you do not know? "(58.3).
would be fair to recognize that many of the things we do - not just fast - just look like a useless sacrifice. Not because lack of generosity, but because they stem from an emptiness and sadness that fills it. They become so bright that the words in the gospel of the Lord Jesus says: "Can the wedding guests mourn while the bridegroom is with them?" (Mt 9:15). In Lent we are invited to make a bold insight on the way in which "the Spouse" is with us and we with him, in other words to ask if we are learning to live with his love, or if we're still trying to earn it. The evangelical freedom does not exempt us from taking the outward forms useful for interior conversion. Only gives us the serenity of her ever becoming the end of our spiritual journey, but a useful way. In fact, the Master adds: "The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast" (9:15).
There are unmistakable signs that show whether our fasting is an act of the Gospel or not. Is the attention and care towards his brothers, "loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to free the oppressed and to break every yoke" (Isaiah 58:6). The mortification of the appetites, which is now free to do, wants to be the most important sign of the subtraction of weight from his shoulders and injustices of our brothers, that we undertake to carry through greater attention to them. Today we have less than our hunger for better provide for that of others.
Although the form of deprivation, fasting is for life. It is a take away to add a divide to multiply. Through this act of penance we want to free the power of love within us all too often guilty slumbers. God has placed us in an immense light of us, waiting only to rise, as does "the dawn" (58.8) arises when end of the night, announcing that the time of darkness is over. There is a "wound" that bleeds in our hearts, but "will heal soon" (58.8), if we listen to the desire to love, give and serve. That dream that God has written into us, as fate and as a responsibility.
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