Lectionary Readings: Year A, Ash Wednesday Just recently I ran across a comment by a priest on an internet forum, who said that the one day that has almost as high an attendance as Christmas and Easter is Ash Wednesday. He found it ironic that this scripture, which repeats the line “and your Father who…
What motivates us to enter into these self-congratulatory states of inflated valuations of our own self-worth? We may indeed be better than some – by our own standards – but by our own standards we are also worse than others (Matt 7:1-2). Yet we still try and congratulate ourselves on our own righteousness, when standing before the God who reconciled us to Himself, no less.