Sunday 30th March 2025 4th Sunday of Lent YEAR C

  The central theme of our liturgical celebration today, is found in the second reading of this Sunday, from the second letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians, 5:17- 21.

We called to leave our old nature to become a new creation in Christ Jesus.  

Lent offers us a period (40 days) of reflections on God’s love and grace, to us out of God’s Mercy.

God is always willing to redeem us back to our original states, since we are all created in God’s image and likeness. Through the prophets as we clearly read in the first reading, God’s cares and provides for our physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual needs.

This works of our redemption was brought to completion through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, the cumulation of God’s redemptional gestures for humanity is the resurrection of Christ Jesus at Easter.

The readings of this Sunday, direct us to see God’s hand in our daily lives. God always seek for us whenever we are lost or in difficulties. His hands are ever ready to save us and welcome us back when we faulter and seek forgiveness. Like the Father of the prodigal Son god mercy and forgiveness is have no measured. Our quest for God who is on the lookout for us at this period of lent, is a call to repentant.

A call to come back to the fold by starting anew, it is a call for us to reconcile ourselves to God and to His church through the sacrament of reconciliation. It is a time for us to accept forgiveness and also forgive those who have wronged us.

This period of self-renewal, is also an invitation to us to receive God’s unconditional and overflowing love and forgiveness. We in our turn are call to share this love to people around us.

Jerome Otitoyomi DUKIYA. C.S.Sp.