As we continue to walk with our Lord on this second Friday of Lent, in today's readings we hear his piercing words of 2000 years ago which indicate the consummation of one age and the beginning of another. They are words which describe how God the Father, through the rejection of his only Son, God the Son, would extend an invitation to anyone who would accept his generous outpouring of grace and make of them his newly chosen, his treasured and holy people set apart to do his will in Christ.