Make your choice!

Welcome to the season of Lent; this season of heart and purification. In today's first reading, Moses offers the people a choice - life or death. To earn a good and long life, they must live according to God's commandments. To obtain death, they only have to ignore God. There is, therefore, happiness in turning to God. Happy is the man who puts his faith in the Lord.

In the gospel, Jesus also gives us a choice – life or death. If we choose to follow Him in the path of faith, in all we do and say, we will obtain an eternal reward. This sometimes requires losing our physical life here on earth to enter into life with Christ.

The Lord, through his word, invites us to reflect on what we must change over the coming weeks in order to make ourselves more worthy of the great sacrifice made for us by Christ.

Lord, help us to choose life and your blessing!

Welcome to the season of Lent!