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Catholic Caucus: Daily Mass Readings, 02-25-2021
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I am alone, Lord, and have no-one but you
Queen Esther took refuge with the Lord in the mortal peril which had overtaken her. She besought the Lord God of Israel in these words:
‘My Lord, our King, the only one,
come to my help, for I am alone
and have no helper but you
and am about to take my life in my hands.
‘I have been taught from my earliest years, in the bosom of my family,
that you, Lord, chose
and our ancestors out of all the people of old times
Salutem in Domino (Health and salvation in the Lord)!
That traditional Latin greeting encapsulates our hope and prayer every day of our lives, but one that we raise with particular intensity for the next forty days. The Latin Church begins her Lenten journey with the very evocative, dramatic rite of the imposition of ashes, hence, Ash Wednesday. Harking back to our primordial origins, the priest reminds each person,
Memento, homo, quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris (Remember, man, that thou art dust, and unto dust thou shalt return). Ashes have quite a pedigree in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition; the word appears at least 57 times in both Testaments. Abraham acknowledges his own nothingness in the sight of God by referring to himself as nothing more than “dust and ashes” (Gen 18:27). Women as diverse as Tamar, Judith and Esther speak of ashes in connection with a penitential spirit. We find references to “dust and ashes” or “sackcloth and ashes” in the Books of Jo