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Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

This Sunday’s first reading finds Moses experiencing God’s call to him from the burning bush. Moses recognised that he was on holy ground. He responded to the presence of God with humility and was open to God’s call. It was a call to a task for which he felt unqualified. He needed assurance - and God provided the words that would enable Moses to go to the people of Israel in the midst of their sufferings, and despite their hardness of heart.

How often do we feel daunted by the circumstances in which we live? - certainly, daunted by the news that we are seeing at present, as we continue to pray for peace in the world, and for all our brothers and sisters whose lives have been so deeply afflicted by armed conflict. We must know that God, who is compassion and love, will give us all that we need.

In this wonderful season of Lent, we are called to examine our lives, our consciences. We recognise our failings, our sinfulness, our weakness, our need for repentance - yet we do so with the greatest confidence, for - as Jesus tells us in the parable of the fig tree - God, our Father, wants us to be His. He will give us the opportunity to change, to produce the fruit that can only come through our openness to His love; the love that we see in His Son.  

Let us be confident, then, for the love that comes to us in Christ overcomes all things, and enables us to carry out all that is demanded of us as His disciples.

With every blessing,

+Richard

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