Thursday of the First Week
Today’s readings invite us to reflect on and remember that our love and caring for others is essential as we ask our God for help and guidance.
In the first reading, Queen Esther knows that the people she loves, her Jewish community, are about to be killed and she can help to change that if she dares to talk with her King. She invites others to pray with her asking God to give her the courage to face the King. Her love and concern for her people are strong and she prays all day and asks God to give her the right words to stop the violence and God listens.
From the Gospel reading, we hear the familiar words of praying to God by asking, seeking, and knocking at God’s door and we will receive and find and the door will be open. However, as we pray with this Gospel, there is more than that for us to ponder. We are asked to care for others to give them the bread that they need, the help that they need, to “Do to others what we want them to do for us.”
Clearly the grace of love and caring for others is in both these readings as the path to asking God for help that we believe is needed at a particular time. During this Lenten season may we find ways to increase our prayer and reflection time and love and concern for others through some action of service for a person or our planet Earth.
Loving God, help me to increase my love this day for others and all of Creation. May I take a new step this day towards showing this love by one concrete new action that will help to change me and benefit this community I call home. May I feel Your presence with me. Amen.
Sr. Lindora Cabral, RSM, Saint Michael’s College Board of Trustees
Daily Scripture readings can be found online at the USCCB website
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