Monday, February 27, 2012

1st Week of Lent, Wednesday, 29-02-12

Jonah 3:1-10 / Luke 11:29-32

There are plenty of material about the predictions of the end of the world and doomsday prophecies.

So much so that we get numbed by it and we begin to see them as some kind of a dumb joke.

Yet whether we frown upon or make fun of it, there is an urgency about these doomsday prophecies.

Putting it simply, it tells us to be prepared and to get ready for impending judgement and punishment.

Well, in the 1st reading, if the people of Nineveh were to frown or make fun of the prophet Jonah, then it would have been really disastrous for them.

But they heeded the message, maybe because they acknowledge their evil behaviour and the wicked things they have done.

The season of Lent calls us to conversion and repentance so that we can be forgiven and healed by God.

Yet it is not a question of whether we are heeding the message. We all know we must repent, but is there an urgency?

Let us not wait and take things easy, especially in this season of Lent.

The people of Nineveh were given three days. We may have lesser time.