Weekly Message from Fr. Rick:
Second Sunday of Lent
February 28, 2021
“God Himself will provide a sheep for the sacrifice.”
On this Second Sunday of Lent this year we hear again the account of Abraham’s near Sacrifice of his only son Isaac.
It is in many respects a strange and disturbing account yet the Fathers of the Church in their commentaries on this episode in the Book of Genesis saw it in foreshadowing of Christ’s sacrifice.
God spares Isaac, Abraham’s one and only son and heir and the very fulfillment of God’s promise to him of descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky or the sand on the seashore. Yet millennia later God does not spare His very own son but hands Him over for us all. How, St. Paul asks will He not also give us everything else along with Him?
Fr. Rick