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David Paternostro S.J.Mar 17, 2021 12:00:00 AM< 1 min read

17 March 2021

Wednesday in the Fourth Week of Lent

If you ever achieved fame, what would you do with it? Use it to promote yourself? Use it to promote a good cause? However you use it, if all you are doing is promoting your own interests or those of the world, eventually your project will end. Even the most well-meaning projects eventually become (at best) a footnote in history.

By now, Jesus has achieved some level of fame—enough that He cannot go into a town in Judea without being recognized. Yet He does not use His fame to do His own will or promote a cause the world thinks is glorious. The will that is done and the glory He promotes is the Father’s (cf. Jn. 5:30). This is the lesson of Lent: that if we wish to seek what lasts, we must free ourselves of our sins and our self-will, do nothing but the Father’s will, and seek nothing but the Father’ glory.

  March 17th, 2021 

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