Wednesday, Third Week of Lent

Take care ... not to forget the things which your own eyes have seen. (Deuteronomy 4:9)

Reflection

The experience of the Father’s love urges Christians to give of themselves to others, obeying a logic of service and solidarity in openness to their brothers and sisters. The arenas in which the Church through the centuries has borne witness to God’s love in her word and action are vast.

Still today we see immense areas in which the work of Christians must bring to bear the charity of God. New forms of poverty and the pressing questions which trouble many hearts await a concrete and appropriate response. Those who are lonely, those on the margins of society, the hungry, the victims of violence, those who have no hope must be able to experience, in the Church’s loving care, the tenderness of the Heavenly Father who, from the very beginning of the world, has kept every individual in mind in order to fill each one with his blessings.

—Pope John Paul II

Lenten Action

Do an unnecessary act of love today, remembering God’s love for you.

Prayer

Give me a perfect heart to receive your work, that I may bring forth fruit in patience.