"The themes of early Lent are pretty basic. The ashes of Ash Wednesday announce the simple truth that we are going to die and thereafter face judgment. Hence, we need to repent and come to believe the good news that only Jesus can save us.
"Another early reading from Thursday after Ash Wednesday featured Moses laying out the basic reality that all of us have a choice to make. He says to us,
Today I have set before you life and prosperity, death and doom …
I call heaven and earth today to witness against you:
I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse (Dt 30:15, 20).
"So there it is, our choice: life or death, prosperity or doom. An old Latin expression says, Tertium non datur (no third way is given). We often like to think that we can plow some middle path. But in the matter of the last things, there is no middle path, no third way. Either we choose God and His kingdom, reflecting that choice in all of our smaller decisions, or we do not."
In a recent commentary, Monsignor Charles Pope (pastor of Holy Comforter-Saint Cyprian Parish, Washington, DC) reflected on the important choice we must make as we live our lives and on the consequences of this choice.
To access Msgr. Pope's complete post, please visit:
Msgr. Charles Pope: Choice and Consequences (23 FEB 15)
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