{"id":45150,"date":"2025-03-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/?p=45150"},"modified":"2025-02-11T11:40:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T09:40:57","slug":"hope-in-the-divine-mercy-ash-wednesday-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/recursos\/lecturas-del-domingo\/esperanza-en-la-misericordia-divina-miercoles-de-ceniza-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope in divine mercy. Ash Wednesday (C)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this Jubilee Year of Hope, it may be helpful to view Lent through the prism of this virtue. How could this Lent be a time of greater hope for us? In his Bull for the Jubilee Year, <em>Spes Non Confundit<\/em>The Holy Father quotes Sacred Scripture with these words:<em> \"you gave your children a good hope, for you grant repentance to sinners...so that...when we are judged we may hope for mercy.\"<\/em> (<em>Wisdom<\/em> 12, 19-22). And in today's second reading we hear St. Paul quoting the prophet Isaiah:<em> \"In the favorable time I heard you, in the day of salvation I helped you.\"<\/em>. And Paul insists: <em>\"now is the favorable time, now is the day of salvation.\"<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The very reality of Lent with its call to conversion speaks to us of hope because it tells us that God continues to call us and that conversion is possible. No one would be called if there were no hope that he or she could respond effectively. We are called to conversion because God truly offers us salvation and conversion is possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Gospel, Jesus points out various ostentatious forms of piety practiced by the <em>\"<\/em>hypocrites<em>\"<\/em>. We must not give alms or pray or fast to be seen, <em>\"as hypocrites do\"<\/em>. And Our Lord concludes: <em>\"verily I say unto you, they have received their reward.\"<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seeking earthly praise shows a lack of hope. We seek the brief <em>murmur<\/em> of human praise because we do not trust God to give us an eternal reward. We cling to an immediate reward because we do not hope for a long-term one. In each case-in almsgiving, in prayer and in fasting-Jesus insists that if we do things with discretion, without seeking human adulation, <em>\"Your Father, who sees in secret, will repay you.<\/em>\". We must believe and hope in this reward, even if we do not see it on earth. This is why the Church invites us to intensify our works of mercy, our prayer and our voluntary sacrifice in this holy season, in view of an eternal reward. Thinking of this reward can spur us to live these practices. It is worthwhile to dedicate more time to prayer and works of charity; it is worthwhile to deny ourselves, because whatever we give on earth will be returned to us with infinite generosity in heaven. As St. Josemar\u00eda Escriv\u00e1 says: <em>\"It is good for you to serve God as a son, without pay, generously... -But don't worry if you ever think about the prize.\"<\/em> <em>(Road 669)<\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>En este a\u00f1o jubilar de la esperanza, puede ser \u00fatil ver la Cuaresma a trav\u00e9s del prisma de esta virtud. \u00bfC\u00f3mo podr\u00eda ser esta Cuaresma un tiempo de mayor esperanza para nosotros? En su bula para el a\u00f1o jubilar, Spes Non Confundit, el Santo Padre cita la Sagrada Escritura con estas palabras: \u201cdiste a tus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1441,"featured_media":13326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[554,647],"tags":[616,638],"class_list":["post-45150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evangelio","category-lecturas-del-domingo","tag-evangelio","tag-lecturas-del-domingo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Esperanza en la misericordia divina. 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