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Year C: Third Sunday of Lent
First
Reading:
Exodus 3:1-8,13-15
The First
Reading is also about someone meeting their Maker - but who
lived to tell the tale...In fact, the rest of Moses’ life was
bound up in that encounter
between himself and God in the burning bush.
Moses was quite happy as a shepherd looking after his
father-in-law’s sheep - but God had seen the plight of His
people and had chosen Moses as the person to lead them into the
land of milk and honey.
He cannot quite believe it - and can only see the problems ahead
- not least convincing the Israelites that it really is God who
is behind it all.
God brooks no argument - He tells Moses to speak of Him as “I
Am” and to tell the Israelites that He is the God of Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob.
In fact, Moses takes even more convincing that is recorded here
- but, eventually, goes back to the Israelites and to Pharaoh
and, in time, his labours bear fruit in the liberation of the
People of God and their settlement in the Promised Land.
What does it mean for me?
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The process of conversion involves an
encounter with God - something that attracts us and draws us into
wanting to know more - though not always as dramatic as this one.
What attracted you to faith and a
relationship with God? |
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