Tuesday of the 1st Week of Lent: ISA 55:10-11; MT 6:7-15
I’m learning to appreciate why I should pray, “Thy Kingdom come.” In my youth, among American Catholics, a reaction against the pessimism of Jansenism overestimated present blessings, ignoring the suffering around us. Doesn’t such complacency and indifference keep us outside the Kingdom of Heaven? Today’s impatience with inconvenience, fears and intolerance of otherness, can’t be hospitable to God’s Kingdom. More than ever, mustn’t I learn to pray, “Thy Kingdom come?”