Reading: Psalm 25:1-7
According to your steadfast love remember me, for your goodness' sake, O Lord! Psalm 25:7
In the old church calendar the second Sunday of Lent had a Latin name, Reminiscere. On that
Sunday the liturgy called on God to reminisce, that is, to remember his people the way the
psalmist prays. It's not that God might forget his mercy and loving-kindness toward us. Isn't the
trouble rather our own amnesia, our forgetting how God remembers us?
We so easily get the wrong "mindset," as St. Paul likes to call it, not just when we think about
others, but when we think about ourselves. It regularly slips our mind just how God keeps us in
mind.
For one thing, God remembers that we are marked with the cross of Holy Baptism -- even when
we forget. God is mindful that his own Son Jesus now calls us his own brothers and sisters --
even when we forget. God remembers Jesus going around that full circle of thorns--for us.
It is not God's memory, but our own, that needs regular prompting. "Keep in mind," the canticle
sings, "that Jesus Christ has died for us." Artist Siegfried does it visually in his second word.
How does he see God remembering us? With angelic mercy, an open hand, an open door to
God's own paradise.
Prayer: Remember us, LORD, the way Jesus remembers us. When the hustle and bustle of daily
life feed our amnesia, remember us as Jesus remembers us--together with him, in his kingdom.
Amen.
According to your steadfast love remember me, for your goodness' sake, O Lord! Psalm 25:7
In the old church calendar the second Sunday of Lent had a Latin name, Reminiscere. On that
Sunday the liturgy called on God to reminisce, that is, to remember his people the way the
psalmist prays. It's not that God might forget his mercy and loving-kindness toward us. Isn't the
trouble rather our own amnesia, our forgetting how God remembers us?
We so easily get the wrong "mindset," as St. Paul likes to call it, not just when we think about
others, but when we think about ourselves. It regularly slips our mind just how God keeps us in
mind.
For one thing, God remembers that we are marked with the cross of Holy Baptism -- even when
we forget. God is mindful that his own Son Jesus now calls us his own brothers and sisters --
even when we forget. God remembers Jesus going around that full circle of thorns--for us.
It is not God's memory, but our own, that needs regular prompting. "Keep in mind," the canticle
sings, "that Jesus Christ has died for us." Artist Siegfried does it visually in his second word.
How does he see God remembering us? With angelic mercy, an open hand, an open door to
God's own paradise.
Prayer: Remember us, LORD, the way Jesus remembers us. When the hustle and bustle of daily
life feed our amnesia, remember us as Jesus remembers us--together with him, in his kingdom.
Amen.
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