From my professor this week:
"But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me." - Micah 7:7
This verse reminds me of Joshua 24:15:
But if it seem evil to you to serve the Lord, you have your choice: choose this day that which pleaseth you, whom you would rather serve, whether the gods which your fathers served in Mesopotamia, or the gods of the Amorrhites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house we will serve the Lord.
This reminds me of when Moses came down from Sinai with the Ten Commandments to find the people singing and dancing around a golden calf - Exodus 32:26 -
So he stood at the entrance to the camp and said, “Whoever is for the Lord, come to me.” And all the Levites rallied to him.
Of course shortly after that, Moses had the Levites smite the idolators - and over 3000 were killed that day.
Today's sermon included a story of Jewish (though non-religious) musician, Hermann Cohen, who as a child prodigy, his father got him involved in piano and at a very young age he was performing concerts for nobility. As he grew up in the material world, he sought happiness in what the world had to offer. He never found it. He became a drunk and a gambler, and finding himself out of work and out of money, he took a job as choir director for a Catholic church of St. Valère in May of 1847 in Paris. One day, at benediction, the Holy Ghost hit him - and he saw the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the monstrance at benediction. In his words, "like the prodigal son facing himself." He was baptized on August 28th of that year, the feast of St. Augustine. In 1849 he joined the Carmelite Order and took the name of Fr. Augustine Mary of the Blessed Sacrament. The happiness he had sought in the world, he found in the Eucharist and serving Jesus Christ as a Carmelite missionary.
The Second Sunday of Lent
This Sunday's Gospel (Extraordinary Rite) is Matthew 17:1-9 - which is the telling of the Transfiguration of our Lord. Truly a sign of hope in the resurrection as Moses and Elijah appear with Jesus before Peter, James, and John.
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