{"id":3627,"date":"2016-02-19T15:29:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T20:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/?p=3627"},"modified":"2016-02-23T07:56:15","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T12:56:15","slug":"listening-to-jesus-in-an-age-of-distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/spiritual-reflections\/listening-to-jesus-in-an-age-of-distraction","title":{"rendered":"Listening to Jesus in an age of distraction"},"content":{"rendered":"
A reflection by Fr. David Warren, SFM, on the Second Sunday of Lent: Genesis 15.5-12, 17-18;\u00a0Philippians 3.17-4: 1;\u00a0Luke 9.28-36<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cRemember that you are dust and unto dust you shall return.\u201d With these words in our ears and with ashes on our foreheads, we began the season of Lent. These words are not a threat; they are an invitation to come home to ourselves\u2014to our true selves.<\/p>\n The gospel last weekend was about our false self. The story of the temptations of Jesus is the story of the self that is deluded by the desire to be self-sufficient, by the desire to impress other people, and by the desire to dominate other people. The gospel this weekend is about our true self.<\/p>\n \u201cJesus took with him Peter and John and James, and went up on the mountain to pray. And while he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became dazzling white\u201d (Luke 9:28-29).<\/em><\/p>\n The disciples saw the true self of Jesus. They saw his inner glory.<\/p>\n The glory of God dwells in Jesus. But it doesn\u2019t just dwell in Jesus. It dwells in all of us. The glory of God is our true self and it\u2019s trying to come out. \u201cThe glory of God is the human person fully alive,\u201d wrote St. Irenaeus. We are all looking for the experience of being fully alive. Underneath everything we do is the desire to feel fully alive.<\/p>\n But what does it mean to be fully alive? The world offers a variety of answers to that question. Some of these answers lead us right back to the temptations of Jesus in last Sunday\u2019s gospel. In today\u2019s gospel, God tells us to listen to Jesus who will show us the way to be fully alive.<\/p>\n\n
“God tells us to listen to Jesus who will show us the way to be fully alive.”<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n