Choose The Narrow Path
By FR. ROBERT ALTIER Second Sunday Of Lent (YR A) Readings:Gen. 12:1-4a2 Tim. 1:8b-10Matt. 17:1-9 In the readings today, there is a theme: a great good being granted after a time of difficulty. In the first reading, Abram is told by the Lord to leave his home and family and go to a place God would show him. In the end, there is a promise that God would make a great nation come from Abram and that all the communities of the Earth would find blessing in him.In the second reading, St. Paul tells us that we are to bear our share of hardship for the Gospel. This is followed by the statement that God has called us to a…Continue Reading