TWENTY-SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, OCTOBER 1, 2023
- Frances Ohanenye
- Oct 1, 2023
- 1 min read
Reading 1
Thus says the LORD: You say, "The LORD's way is not fair!" Hear now, house of Israel: Is it my way that is unfair, or rather, are not your ways unfair? When someone virtuous turns away from virtue to commit iniquity, and dies, it is because of the iniquity he committed that he must die. But if he turns from the wickedness he has committed, and does what is right and just, he shall preserve his life; since he has turned away from all the sins that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
REFLECTION
Is it my way that is unfair, or rather, are not your ways unfair?
Our relationship with God should not be complicated, but we make it so. We endeavor to bend God’s way and will to our opposing ideas. God’s way is lined with grace. God’s will is gracious. God’s way is perfectly balanced. When we commit iniquities, all God is asking of us is to show genuine repentance, and as that ever-loving and ever-forgiving Father, He forgives us our trespasses repeatedly.
We are blessed as Catholics to have daily recourse to confession anywhere there is a parish all over the world. Some people do not have this remedy, this access to cleansing ourselves of impurities and iniquities.
What more could we ask of our Heavenly Father? His ways are fair. Ours do not seem to be. If we can only turn away from all the sins we have committed and seek righteousness, we are destined to preserve our lives and please God at the same time.
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