Daily Gospel Reflection for February 22, 2022

Join us as we reflect, ponder, and pray together inspired by today's Gospel.

Today's Gospel: Matthew 6:1-6; 16-18

During Lent, we are invited into the solitude, the place in our hearts where God dwells and only we and He have access. St. John Paul II referred to this as original solitude.

This place where God sees in secret reminds us that we are never truly alone if we open our hearts to God. We can rest in His love at all times. God is inviting us deeper into this solitude this Lent. He asks us to give, to pray, and to fast to help others - yes - but also because those actions help purify us and bring us closer to Him. As we grow closer, we become more aware of our original solitude and rejoice in it because it is there that we are known, seen, and loved; there in the secret of our own and our Father’s heart. We learn to turn from our desire to share all with everyone else and instead reserve some things for just Him.

Every Lent is a challenge and an invitation to step closer to the One who made us and is always calling us deeper. Choose to answer this invitation. Choose to give a little more, pray a little more, fast a little more, all the while keeping it between you and your Father in heaven. Come up with an answer to the inevitable question “What are you doing/giving up for Lent?” Be mysterious. Be elusive about it. Let it be an offering from you to God. Offer Him your desire to share. Accept the challenge. RSVP to the invitation. Let God work in your heart by meeting Him there in that secret place where it’s just you and Him. It’s going to be an amazing forty days.

Ponder:

What can you do in secret this Lent?

Pray:

Father, please help me resist the desire to share with others what You see in secret.

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