The Sign of God - the Word of God

In today’s gospel, we read This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign shall be given to it but the sign of Jonah.

Pope Paul VI wrote of religious monks and nuns that they are the sign that there is at work in the world a force that so transcends the limits of this world that it will be capable of transfiguring it on the last day.

What is the sign? It is the sign of Jesus still alive in this world. Jesus, alive in each one of us. Jesus carrying out his mission through those open and willing to be attentive to the spirit within.

Jean-Marie Howe writes God is already praying within us. When we begin to pray, we are, so to speak, already at the second stage of prayer. We are joining God in a prayer which is unfolding within us and within our world. Our task in prayer is that of giving voice to the Spirit’s groaning within us and bringing the Spirit’s utterances to language and conscious awareness.

During Lent we read the Word of God. During Lent, we can also be a sign of God as we become the living expression of that word: the sprit groaing within and bringing utterances to language and conscious awareness.