Meditations for the 40 Days 2023: 22-Feb – Jl 2:12-182023-02-222023-02-21https://servantsoftheword.org/wp-content/assets/SW_logo_web-03-300x150.pngThe Servants of the Wordhttps://servantsoftheword.org/wp-content/assets/week-1-2.png200px200px
For today’s installment of our 40 Days Meditation series, our brother Luis Alejandro Arce provides commentary on Jl 2:12-18. Take a listen or click here to download.
“Yet even now,” declares the LORD,
“return to me with all your heart,
with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
and rend your hearts and not your garments.”
Return to the LORD your God,
for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
and he relents over disaster.
Who knows whether he will not turn and relent,
and leave a blessing behind him,
a grain offering and a drink offering
for the LORD your God?
Blow the trumpet in Zion;
consecrate a fast;
call a solemn assembly;
gather the people.
Consecrate the congregation;
assemble the elders;
gather the children,
even nursing infants.
Let the bridegroom leave his room,
and the bride her chamber.
Between the vestibule and the altar
let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep
and say, “Spare your people, O LORD,
and make not your heritage a reproach,
a byword among the nations.
Why should they say among the peoples,
‘Where is their God?'”
Then the LORD became jealous for his land
and had pity on his people.
Jl 2:12-18
Luis is a brother originally from Costa Rica. He studied Media Communications and more recently a master's degree in Theology. As a Servant of the Word he has lived in Costa Rica, Mexico, and the US. He is currently leading the International Formation Household in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He enjoys outdoor sports, especially biking.
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