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First Sunday of Lent, Called “Invocabit”   Judith, Chapter 11, Verse 1 Then Holofernes said to her: “Take courage, woman! Have no FEAR in your heart! I have never harmed anyone who chose to serve Nebuchadnezzar, king of all the earth.   Beauty meets the beast while he is reclining in bed. He wants her almost as much as Jerusalem.   Two Speeches [1]   Holofernes, servant of the King of Assyria, tells the apple of his eye assuming she serves his king to take courage. He is blinded to the fact that she serves the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords and is a servant of Yahwah. Holofernes promises good treatment for a servant of Nebuchadnezzar. Judith answer is a mixture of cunning and truth. She states, “If you follow the words of your maidservant, God will successfully perform a deed through you, and my lord will not fail to achieve his designs.” She flatters and he loves it. In truth she states:   ·          ...

First Sunday of Lent, Called “Invocabit” GRAND CANYON Established   Genesis, Chapter 32, Verse 12 Save me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau! Otherwise, I FEAR that he will come and strike me down and the mothers with the children.   Jacob here was afraid of his brother whom he cheated. What’s interesting is that Jacob was Esau’s twin brother. Twins often think a feel alike so one wonders was Jacob’s fear generated because he assumed Esau would do what He himself would have done. Here is where God takes two imperfect humans and makes them better. God intercedes softening both Esau and Jacob’s heart.   Have you ever been so angry; livid at someone or something and then discovered the reason for your anger was directly correlated to a defect in yourself that you had buried and chose to ignore. We all have and then realized that we are not as perfect as we pretend to be. Let us reflect on Paul’s advice to the Ephesians, “Brothers and sisters: I declare and ...