Zeal

‘However, take care and be earnestly on your guard not to forget the things which your own eyes have seen.’  Luke 11

Zeal is an obscure virtue during this season of Lent.  We aim often for the virtues of self-denial, humility, fortitude, and others that seem to lend themselves to our desire for repentance, and movement toward the Resurrection.

With that repentance, however, is an opportunity to look at our life in relationship with God, and make some real and positive change.  That is where zeal can help.

Zeal is the quality of eagerness and ardent desire in pursuing something.  In Catholic language, zeal is love in action.

Let us continue this Lenten season with zeal, allowing love to impel us to look realistically, without judgment, at our life, and make choices that more fully reflect Christ’s life within us.  For it will be in so doing that we will draw ever closer to our ultimate goal – eternal life in the Father’s Kingdom of true and lasting peace.