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Greetings junk squire sprouts. Today is the third day and the third month in the year of our

Lord, 2024. My name is Sir Roland Paterlot, and you're listening to Sundays with

Sir Rowland on Catholic Sprouts, where every Sunday during Lent, we discuss the Sunday

readings through the Lens of Dragon's saying. Today we have lots of threes.

It's not only the third day of the third month, it's also the third Sunday of Lent. And depending

on which mass you attend this weekend, the readings might be a little different. That's because

the next three Sundays of Lent is when we have the scrutinies. The scrutinies are three special

rights that help prepare the elect, those who are preparing to enter the Catholic Church at Easter.

Hopefully you have people entering the church at your parish this year.

For my reflections, the next few weeks, I'm going to focus on the readings of the scrutinies.

As not only do they help the newly elect, they can help all of us to sharpen our skills in the art of dragon's saying.

The word scrutiny actually means to see clearly or to

inspect closely. It means that we study the dragons in our life, come to understand how we fall

victim to those dragons, and how we can be healed through Christ and given the power to slay the

dragons. During the next three weeks, we are called to open the eyes of our souls and carefully

examine how dragons influence us,

and then make a conscious choice to fight against the darkness of dragons,

so that we can joyfully receive the light of Christ at Easter,

along with those who are baptized into the faith.

The three scrutinies have the following themes in the readings.

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