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🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Homily from the Fourth Sunday of Lent.

Real suffering in this world reveals the deeper part of us that has come undone.

God made this world good, but He did not make it unbreakable. This world has come undone, and our sickness and suffering reveals the deeper ways our hearts have come undone.

Mass Readings from March 22, 2020:
1 Samuel 16:1, 6-7, 10-13
Psalms 23: 1-6
Ephesians 5:8-14

Transcript

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0:00.0	As Jesus passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.
0:05.0	His disciples asked him, Rabbi, who sinned this man or his parents that he was born blind?
0:11.2	Jesus answered, neither he nor his parents sinned, it is so that the works of God might be
0:15.3	made visible through him.
0:18.1	We have to do the works of the one who sent me while at his day, night is coming when
0:21.6	no one can work.
0:22.6	While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
0:27.1	When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made clay with his saliva, and smeared the
0:31.0	clay on his eyes, and he said to him, go wash in the pool of saloon, which means scent.
0:35.3	So he went and washed and came back able to see.
0:38.3	His neighbors and those who had seen him earlier, as a beggar, said, isn't this the one who
0:41.7	used to sit in beg?
0:43.4	Some said it is, but others said, no, he just looks like him.
0:46.7	He said, I am.
0:47.7	So they said to him, how are your eyes opened?
0:50.3	He replied, the man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and told me go to saloon
0:55.1	and wash.
0:56.2	So I went there and washed and was able to see.
0:59.2	And they said to him, where is he?
1:00.5	But he said, I don't know.
1:02.8	They brought the one who was once blind to the Pharisees.
1:06.1	Now Jesus had made clay and opened his eyes on the Sabbath.
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