Last Wednesday, Ash Wednesday, we started our Lenten journey, a very good reason to have an appointment with the Bible.
On February 22, Ash Wednesday, we started, once again, the Lenten season that will conclude with the celebration of the Greatest Week of our Faith and Easter Sunday. Along this Lenten journey we will travel along a landscape rich in teachings. Through them, Jesus will invite us to be humble in living our faith: we will see him being tempted in the desert, being transfigured on Mount Tabor and showing us that He needs our help when He asks the Samaritan woman for water. We will also see him show us his love and healing power when He heals the blind man and raises Lazarus from the dead. And towards the end of Lent, in the Palm Sunday reading, He asks again for our help and our company in his most bitter and difficult hour. With the intention of giving support in this journey to meet the Father, we have selected these quotations from the Sacred Scripture which correspond to the readings of the Masses of Ash Wednesday and Lent Sundays. And, as they often say to pilgrims on the “Camino de Santiago” (Pilgrimage of Compostela, known in English as the Way of St James): “Buen camino! ” This greeting among pilgrims of the Camino de Santiago, conveys the desire that the journey be completed successfully.
“(But) take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that people may see them; otherwise, you will have no recompense from your heavenly Father.
Matthew 6,1.
At this, Jesus said to him, “Get away, Satan! It is written: ‘The Lord, your God, shall you worship and him alone shall you serve.'”
Matthew 4,10.
But Jesus came and touched them, saying, “Rise, and do not be afraid.”
Matthew 17,7.
And they said to the woman, “We no longer believe because of your word; for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the savior of the world.”
John 4, 42.
Then Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, so that those who do not see might see, and those who do see might become blind.”
John 9, 39.
Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
John 11, 25-26.
Then he said to them, “My soul is sorrowful even to death. 24 Remain here and keep watch with me.”
Matthew 26,38.
