God enlivens our vision – Exod 3:1-15, Luke 13:1-9

Lent, Yr C, Wk 3; Notre Dame (Farley Hall)

I wonder how many burning bushes Moses walked past.  We’d all like to think that we’d notice something like that, that it takes no special spiritual gift to notice something, to draw close to it out of curiosity, and then be surprised by God.  But, we walk past burning bushes all the time.  That kind of attentiveness that attends to the world in a sensitive enough manner to notice how God might be calling out to us isn’t something we just have automatically.  It is a gift, but it’s a gift we give thanks for by working to develop it, just like musical talent, or athletic ability.

Jesus’ glorious word sustains us on our walk –Luke 9:28b-36

Lent, Yr C, Wk 2; televised Mass for those unable to attend Mass (Diocese of Fort Wayne - South Bend)

I’m sure we all have moments from our past that we love to revisit in our memories; moments that we would have loved to freeze-frame when they happened, that we long to have been able to package in a way that we could open them up again and again, and let their fragrance revive us from any spiritual drowsiness we find ourselves in.  There are big, obvious moments like a wedding, your first child’s first smile or, for me, my profession of perpetual religious vows, or my ordination; and any number of more unique moments we each cherish.  What’s amazing about those moments though, is that each of them look forward, prepare us for something totally new, something that we could never have begun to embrace without that amazing moment, but we also could never have gotten to if we hadn’t climbed down from the mountain and dared to walk in the plain.