REFLECT:
There is a song entitled “Change our Hearts” written by Rory Cooney that is sometimes used during the Lenten season.  The words to the antiphon are:
“Change our hearts this time, your word says it can be.  Change our minds this time, your life could make us free.  We are the people your call set apart, Lord.  This time change our hearts.”
When I read the story of the Pharisee and the tax collector praying in the temple, this antiphon comes to mind because, if I’m honest, I know there are times, in life, that I am both the Pharisee and tax collector.  I boast of what I’ve done or sometimes think I am better than someone else.  It is at those times that I need to be like the tax collector and beg for God to change my heart, to know that it is God who is responsible for all good, and that He has called me, has set me apart, to do the good that I am able to do because of His grace and life in me.  

PRAY:
Let us pray:  Lord, this time, this one time, change my heart and set me free.  Be merciful to me, a sinner.
 
ACT:
Work at changing your heart by looking for and acknowledging the good (which is so often taken for granted!) that others do.