Lenten Prayers and Reflections - Week 3

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Week 3 Reflection

Hunger is… 

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be filled. 

Matthew 5:6 

As we continue our journey into the second week of Lent, let’s take a moment to consider this passage of scripture. What does it mean to hunger for righteousness?  

For many of the children who receive Mary’s Meals in their place of education, the physical feeling of hunger is all too familiar.  

Their hunger to have enough food to eat inspires a different kind of hunger in us. It is a hunger for justice; a hunger that we are called to feel in our souls.  

This type of hunger propels us to action and reminds us that there are problems in the world much bigger than we are. Hunger for righteousness can’t be satisfied while we know that there are still children in the world who don’t have enough to eat.   

However, when we come together as a community, our small acts of love combine to create one significant movement – a movement that is reducing the number of children who go hungry each day, and this is good news!