Today's readings are here: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/022112.cfm
"Adulterers....purify your hearts, you of two minds...."
We are adulterers and people of two minds, for we can keep our minds centered on the Lord as our end for a time; but then we allow the desires and feelings within us to distract us in such a way that we look to the earthly things to which those feelings point us as our last end. We are still not completely convinced that only God and living according to God's law of love will satisfy our hungry hearts. We still believe that something in this life (which is what our passions focus on) will put our searching hearts to rest. Our adulterous hearts provoke God to jealousy, because he has loved us to the end and does not want (or deserve) any rivals; so we need to humbly confess our ultimate desire to live independently of God by looking for anything but him to satisfy us.
May God give us undivided hearts that are stayed on him.
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