Dear Cathedral Family,
How is your Lenten discipline going?
We’ve all had time by now to fail, forget, fall off track.
If you have not at all deviated off course, you are blessed!
But if you have, you are just as blessed! Because you have the opportunity to return.
In this Sunday’s gospel reading, as Jesus explains and comments on the recent massacre at Jerusalem and the nearby fall of the tower at Siloam, he does not say that these sufferers were worse sinners, or that they deserved their fate, or that his listeners were luckier or more virtuous or more righteous. Neither did he say that all must suffer.
Instead, Jesus offers the invitation to repentance and return to God and hope for God’s mercy and deliverance when suffering comes.
The process of self-discipline in Lent is meant to be preparation for a resurrection life—not for a definitive end to human frailty and failure, but a continual hope for and trust in love, forgiveness, and return to relationship.
This is good news, indeed.
Faithfully,
Beverly+
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