First Sunday in Lent – Sermon by Br Daniel
We all have an identity. Be it as someone’s brother, sister, mother, uncle, cousin. We all have some kind of relationship to someone. It is tempting to think that our identity is very personal, and that we have even created our own. I’m sure we’ve all have spells of “finding ourselves”. Yet, despite all our efforts at finding ourselves, it turns out that our identity is firmly and unavoidably rooted in our relationships. We cannot be a child without parents, we cannot be a friend without friends. You get my point.
So pretty much everything we might say about ourselves involves other people, and sometimes even animals! And who we are ultimately evolves from our relationships with so many other people. Above all, our identities are also rooted in our relationship with God, and especially being his beloved children.
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