Скачать или смотреть Leave your country, your family and your father. l Second Sunday of Lent, Year A l Fr. John Chen

Abraham was called by God to leave in order to enter the promised land; Moses was man who liberated the people of Israel from slavery and led them to the doorstep of the promised land; even after entering the promised land, people need man like Elijah to wake them up from their false belief and bring them back to the true worship of God. Jesus was destined to fulfil the initiated departure from Abraham down the salvation history by passing over from death into resurrection. As Christians, we are immersed into the paschal mystery of our Lord Jesus Christ through the baptismal water, therefore our life is the constant transformation process of dying to ourselves and living in the resurrected Lord. We should always bear in mind the word of Jesus: “No one who puts a hand to the plow and look back is fit for the Kingdom of God”. To plow means to leave the past behind and go with the expectation of an abundant harvest forward.