Sunday Readings
(March 7 & 8)
Today’s Gospel portrays Jesus as a new and greater Moses.
Moses also took three companions up a mountain and on the seventh day was overshadowed by the shining cloud of God’s presence. He, too, spoke with God and his face and clothing were made radiant in the encounter (see Exodus 24, 34).
But in today’s Lenten liturgy, the Church wants us to look back past Moses. Indeed, we are asked to contemplate what today’s Epistle calls God’s “design … from before time began.”
With his promises to Abram in today’s First Reading, God formed the people through whom he would reveal himself and bestow his blessings on all humanity.