February 15 - Saturday of the 5th Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
(Gn.3:9-24; Ps.90:1-6,12-13; Mk.8:1-10) “You are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Because of the fall we come face-to-face with this truth: our own mortality, our own humility, that we are but a creature made from the dust of the earth. And this truth we must understand. Because we have “eaten from the tree of which [God] had forbidden [us] to eat,” “thorns and thistles” the earth brings forth for us and “by the sweat of [our] face shall [we] get bread to eat,” until we learn our place – for our own sakes – before our Creator, or “until we return to the ground, from which we were taken.”…
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