March 10 - Tuesday of the 3rd Week of Lent
(Dn.3:25,34-43; Ps.25:4-9; Mt.18:21-35) “With contrite heart and humble spirit let us be received.” The Lord “guides the humble to justice, He teaches the humble His way,” and so it is the prayer of these He receives; upon them He showers His mercy. For His mercy is His justice and it is known by those who humbly share the same. Azariah makes his prayer for mercy for his people Israel who suffer the purgatorial fires of their exile from the Promised Land, even as he himself stands in the quite literal fire of the furnace of the King of Babylon for his faithfulness to the living God. He begs…
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