Second Sunday of Lent
Gen 15:5-12 & 17-18; Phil 3:17 - 4:1; Lk 9:28-36 (Year C)
"It is your face, O Lord, that I seek. Hide not your face. I am sure that I shall see the Lord’s face in the land of the living. Hope in him, hold firm and take heart.”
The psalmist’s prayer is typical of the faith that sustained faithful Israelites as they undertook the arduous pilgrimage to Jerusalem, God’s Holy City. Such pilgrimages symbolised life’s journey into the presence of God. Lent is such a pilgrimage, and can be undertaken only with a faith that entrusts itself to a loving Father who invites us to share in the death and resurrection of his Son.
