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02 May 2026

5TH SUNDAY OF EASTER

In this weekend’s first reading, we see how human the first Christians were. Some were Palestinian Jews, while others were gentiles of Greek origin. When food was distributed to the widows, those of Greek origin complained that they were often passed over. Tensions were bound to arise since each group had different ways of thinking and acting.  The second reading, from the First Letter of St. Peter, uses the image of “stone” or “rock.” Peter, referring to Isaiah’s prophecy, tells us that God the Father long ago had established His Son, Jesus, as the “cornerstone, chosen and precious in his sight.” Peter, with warm and welcoming tone, urges us to come with hope and trust to the living stone of salvation, and there to become ourselves a holy temple. Of course, there’s a price to pay. Through our own sufferings, we offer sacrifice and praise to the Father along with the Son. All of this happens through our Baptism and the power of the Holy Spirit. Then comes a warning. Just as many have rejected this rock of salvation to their own condemnation, so too, if we attempt to bypass Christ, then we will ourselves stumble and fall. Peter quotes Isaiah as his authority for referring to Christ as a stumbling block to those who reject Him.

This Gospel Reading is about Jesus and the disciples. He is helping them get ready for his suffering and death. For the apostles this was a huge reversal from the adulation of the entrance into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday to the despair of the Cross on Good Friday. Remember when he asked them whether they would leave him, along with the rest of the crowd? Now it is he who is leaving. They are stunned. Peter’s reply at that time might even be appropriate now. “Where will we go? You have the words of eternal life” Jesus tells them as he tells us now. “Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid. You have faith in God, have faith also in me.” The straightforward meaning of this directive is, you know how to trust, you do it with God. Use that same trust with me. This trust in Jesus and in God is also what we are called to these days.  There is much division within the world community and there is also a lot of division within the lives we lead as people who follow along the way the truth and the life that we are called to by Jesus. Jesus speaks to us not at us.  His presence is in the word proclaimed in the Assembly of the people of God gathered together.  His word is proclaimed to us in the readings from scripture as well as in lived example of others in the community where we live.  We come to Church week in week out to hear the Word.  We come to share the joys and sufferings of all the community gathered together.   We make a spiritual communion with Jesus; risen from the Tomb We don’t stay in Church all the time as the hard pew might well become the soft bed.  

All of us have duties and obligations to family, work and the communities where we live.   When we’re confused about the decisions we should make, Jesus Himself will show us the Way. When we don’t know what is true and what is right and what is wrong, the Holy Spirit through the Church and the faith of its members will enlighten us. And when we are drawn into false pleasures that promise us life, Jesus will bring us back to real life and the joy of that life through the power of His love.  As we walk along the roads of life let us take up the call of Jesus in the gospel to trust in him and he will not let us down as we follow him.

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25 Apr 2026

4Th Sunday of Easter

This weekend we celebrate Good Shepherd Sunday and the annual Day of Prayer for Vocations. We remember our call to follow Christ and the beauty of vocations to the ordained ministry and the consecrated life. As members of His flock, we are entrusted with fostering and supporting new vocations. Let us pray to the Lord of the harvest to send holy and generous laborers into His vineyard shepherds after the heart of the Risen Christ, who gave His life for the sheep. In the 1st reading continuing his address to the crowd near the Upper Room, Peter boldly proclaims that Jesus is both Lord and Messiah, and that salvation comes only through conversion and baptism. in the 2nd Reading Peter describes Jesus’ heroic love as the Good Shepherd, who endured great suffering and even gave His life so that His flock could come to eternal salvation and peace.

In this weekend’s Gospel we hear about Jesus the “Good Shepherd” who tends his sheep and the “Gate” through which they enter eternal life. The idea of Jesus as the Good Shepherd is a lovely thought because it is a well-known fact that the shepherd never leaves his sheep outside the sheepfold. If any are outside the sheepfold the shepherd will seek the lost sheep until they are found.  The wandering figure of the shepherd, anxiously tending his sheep to the point where he is willing to surrender his life for them, is the image Jesus uses about himself in this Gospel Reading. The good shepherd is not an image of religious authority that is involved with its own importance. The authority of the shepherd costs the shepherd, not the sheep. The image of the shepherd cannot be separated from how the shepherd cares for his own sheep. When we see how Jesus behaves as a leader, we see his tenderness and courage.   The parable of the Good Shepherd has many consoling truths and promises for people of every century, including ourselves in 2026.  All of us know people who have wandered away from the Church, who have lost their sense of belonging, who feel they have no faith community to belong to. How will they know they are welcome back if no one tells them? How will they be helped back if no one offers to make the journey with them? 

The good shepherd asks us to make the journey with them as people who have listened to his voice calling us to follow him. Jesus the Good Shepherd is for all of us, and we should listen to his voice amidst the trials of our daily lives. Many of the voices we listen to in so many places in the world claim to speak for the good of everyone, but they lead us astray and disappoint us but our Faith and Hope in Jesus does not disappoint. With Jesus’ life becomes richer and that with him it is easier to find meaning in everything. The Gospel of the Good shepherd is a hope filled call for us to follow Jesus the loving shepherd who seeks out the lost sheep and rejoices when they are found.

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18 Apr 2026

Third Sunday of Easter

We gather this weekend after the solemn celebration of Easter and Divine Mercy Sundays, we also remember that the celebration of Easter continues until Pentecost Sunday and then Easter Time ends and the paschal candle is placed near the baptismal font.  In the first Reading we are told that Peter’s preaching on Pentecost centered on the firm belief that Jesus was the promised Messiah and had been raised from the dead by God the Father. In this reading, he proclaims these truths as the fulfillment of ancient prophecies. In the second reading from the 1st letter of st Peter the apostle reminds believers of the great price Jesus Christ paid for their redemption, helping us to remember and never forget the depth of the Lord’s love for all of us all the time.

This Sunday’s gospel recounts the Jesus appearance on the evening of Easter to two disciples who were going from Jerusalem to Emmaus, their life with Jesus had ended abruptly as all seemed to be lost after the events of Good Friday.  Jesus, their beloved Leader, friend and Teacher, had been arrested, tried, sentenced, tortured and killed. Now they are feeling that without his presence, his inspiration, his support and encouragement, they simply cannot go on.  They are so disappointed and disillusioned about what has happened that they have even decided to leave the Church, the community of his followers. Slowly but surely, they are walking away from it all. They are putting Jerusalem and the other disciples behind them. They are heading for the village of Emmaus, to start a new and different way of life. And there Jesus was walking along with them they were talking about what had happened in Jerusalem and how they had put Jesus to death. Jesus explained all the passages of scripture that were about himself, but it was only at the breaking of the bread that they recognized him. They then went back to tell the others that they had seen the Lord and told their story and how they recognized him at the breaking of the bread.

The Emmaus story is the story of you and me as the two disciples represent all of us who claim that we are Christians with all our doubts and disagreements our joys and sorrows. We come together in faith each Sunday in answer to a call, often a quiet murmur from the recesses of our hearts which calls out to us saying come to me you who are weary and overburdened and I will give you rest.  All of us are searching just as the companions on the road to Emmaus were and they were weary as a result of all that had happened to them. As we are often weary of the things that happen to us as well as the things we see going on in the world at the present time. The people of God come together for a great and good purpose and that is to seek God and what he wants us to do. All of us work together for God’s kingdom since the kingdom provides meaning and purpose. In the scripture readings we find explanations and understanding of events and relationships which have shaped the faith from the beginning. Our faith is lived out in the real world, the world of family, work, and recreation. We don’t live in two separate worlds, one spiritual and the other secular.  

Those who would have us believe that we can separate our lives into two compartments are mistaken as faith and life go together.  The fellowship we share helps us ask questions of faith.  It is the application of scriptures to the events of our own times that reveal that God is walking with us and maybe even working through us.  But it is in the breaking of bread that we recognize Jesus who is with us on our journey.  The journey on the road to Emmaus is the journey we make as gods people.  We are on this journey in fellowship with one another being led by Jesus who calls out to us to follow him from the Cross of Good Friday as well as from the empty tomb of Easter Sunday. As we grow in faith, we are led to understand those past events as we experience them in our time and place and they are as relevant today as they were when they first took place.   The Risen Lord uses so much gentleness with us! He doesn’t oblige us to ‘believe’ but He offers us the things that enable us to judge based on the measure of our own hearts. As St Augustine extraordinarily wrote in the opening of his Confessions ‘our heart is restless until it rests in you’ May our encounter with the Risen Jesus make us compassionate fellow travelers attentive to the struggles of others, ready to listen, and eager to share our faith in His Resurrection as we move forward in faith.

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11 Apr 2026
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2nd Sunday of Easter

Divine Mercy Sunday

This weekend we celebrate the second Sunday of Easter also known as Divine Mercy Sunday. It is a day to remember that God’s mercy is for all people. The readings tell us about faith, hope, and the joy that comes from meeting the risen lord. They also remind us that believing in Him brings new life. In the First Reading from the Acts of the Apostles, we see that the early Christian community was devoted to apostolic teachings, fellowship, sharing meals, and prayer. United, they shared resources, sold possessions to support the needy, and worshiped together, growing daily in number and favour. In the Second Reading from the first letter of st peter, we are told that we are reborn into a living hope and an imperishable inheritance through Christ’s resurrection. Our faith, tested by trials, is precious and will bring praise at Christ’s revelation. Unseen, He is loved, believed in, and brings us inexpressible joy.

The Gospel reading tells us that the Apostles are huddled together in fear in the empty room. They weren’t so sure that they could believe the women’s report that Jesus had risen. They weren’t singing for joy! Now, a whole week has gone by. They still felt “rocky” about their future. Thomas wasn’t the only one who had doubts about Jesus, I think so many were doubtful then as so many are doubtful right here and now and we see that throughout the world. The Apostles were pondering the shocking experience of the previous week when all seemed to be lost as Jesus hung on the Cross. However, all was not lost and here we are in 2026 thinking about how they felt and how we feel after the events of Holy Week. Jesus had come to assure them that he was alive and then his message must have troubled them: “As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”  as the Apostles were sent out, we are sent out to bring the good news of salvation to other people wherever we are. We are asked on this Divine Mercy Sunday to bring the mercy of God to all those out there who need his healing merciful love.  We remember the joys the hope, and the anxieties of the people in our time and we bring all of to God in faith filled prayer.  Our world is hurting so much because of the many evil things that are happening within it, especially these days. There are so many people out there who are scared to stand up for what they believe in to speak honestly and openly about their convictions. It is difficult for those who have suffered much or have seen much evil and distress to accept things that can change for the better and they can.

All this becomes possible when we meet the risen Lord where we are and then like Thomas, we acknowledge him as our lord and God as we say with Thomas My Lord and My God.  Jesus has the scars of his wounds but yet he is still our glorious Lord who has risen from the dead and brings us his light and his love. Today the Gospel assures us that the Easter season is not about sustaining emotional excitement, instead it’s about recognizing the steady presence of the risen Lord who is with us in Word, Sacrament and community life. one week after Easter, the message we receive is simple Christ comes to be with us, speaks words of peace, and sends us out into our world. May all of us be the witnesses to the Gospel bringing the caring face of God and his merciful love to the people in our own local faith communities.

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04 Apr 2026

EASTER SUNDAY

The Forty Days of Lent are over.  We have celebrated the beginning of the priesthood and the Eucharist on Holy Thursday. We have also celebrated The Passion and Death of the Lamb of God and the tomb is now empty as we wait on the joyful call that Christ has  risen from the dead.  The darkness of good Friday is gone and the flowers in our churches symbolize the New Life that has come into the world. Jesus Christ lives! He has Risen as he said he would and his light lights up our world.  During the Easter Vigil we lit the Easter fire and from that fire we have lit the Paschal Candle that will be used over the next year.

Our Gospel story for the vigil tells us that we should not look for Jesus among the dead for he has risen and the light of Christ lights up the darkness of our lives and our world. The Easter celebration is an invitation to come out of darkness into the light of the risen Christ. In that light we see him and recognise each other as brothers and sisters in the Lord. It is that light which summons us to leave the darkness of our lives behind and all of us have some of those dark places.  As a result of Jesus conquering death on the cross nobody can be written off as a lost cause ever again. Year after year when we celebrate Easter, we hold as holy the memory of God’s great love for us when he raised Jesus from the dead.  We believe that God’s graciousness will be extended to ourselves and that our own death will not be the final word. Our faith tells us that we will participate in Jesus resurrection on the last day. But a question raises itself: is our faith in the resurrection limited to remembering Jesus’ resurrection and hoping for our own on the last day? Hopefully it will mean more to us than that.

The resurrection of Jesus is a proclamation that this outcast from Galilee is the beloved Son of God who cannot be held in the darkness of death because someone else acts. Jesus did not raise himself; he was raised by God his father. All of us believe that God’s work continues not least because we believe Jesus’ words: “I am the resurrection and the life.” Our celebration of the Easter Season begins with our celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus on Easter Sunday with the Vigil on Holy Saturday evening during which we welcome and baptize adult converts to the faith Then on Easter morning  we celebrate our Easter masses as we renew our baptismal promises and don’t forget that the feast of Easter continues for 50 days until Pentecost.  So full of gratitude for Christ’s passion, with joy in his resurrection and, strengthened by the Spirit, we continue our Christian journey this Easter time.

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03 Apr 2026

Good Friday

Today in the liturgy, we read St. Johns account of the passion, we pray for the needs of the Church and the world, we venerate the Cross and we receive the blessed Eucharist. As we reflect on the events of Good Friday we are invited to examine our own lives and attitudes.  When we think of the death of Jesus on the cross, we realise that his death was a result of the courage of his convictions. He lived his life with a message of compassion, and love, Jesus was often critical of those who lorded it over those who were less well off or who had little or even nothing at all. The cross of Good Friday is a sign and a symbol that all of us recognise, it is a sign of the completeness of the love that God has for each one of us faults and failings included.

We need to show the love of God to all those whose lives are loveless to all who have nobody to care for them we must show them that ours is an all loving and caring God. In reaching out to others, especially those who feel isolated or abandoned, we embody the spirit of Christ and become instruments of his love in the world. Today when we go up to venerate the cross, we should allow the cross to move us to be better people. Consoling, and comforting the people we meet with the values of Jesus and the Cross.

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01 Apr 2026

HOLY THURSDAY

 

On this day we celebrate the Sacraments of Priesthood and Eucharist. In every diocese the priests who have given their lives in generous service of the people of God gather with the Bishop for the Chrism Mass and then in front of their brothers and sisters they renew their commitment to priestly service. Also, at this Mass the oils of Chrism, Catechumens and the Oil of the Sick are blessed by the bishop, these holy oils will be used in the Baptisms, Confirmations and anointing of the sick in the local parishes over the next 12 months. The theme running throughout this day is one of service, service to God and his people. The theme running throughout this day is one of service, service to God and one another.

The Evening Mass on Holy Thursday commemorates the Last Supper it has as its theme, service and sacrifice which are aspects of the same mystery. In the washing of the feet in this mass  we see Jesus as one who serves, who gives himself. Just as he freely gives himself in washing the feet of his disciples, so too he gives himself in the bread and wine he takes, blesses and hands to them as he does through the priests down through the generations to us, And in the same way he will give himself on the cross tomorrow.  All these acts of self-giving are the same act – that of the Son of Man who came ‘not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.’The gospel of the evening mass clearly indicates a life of love, serving the community and helping out those who are in any need. On Holy Thursday we commemorate the first Eucharist when Jesus gave us the gift of himself to be with us in the here and now of today and for all time.

The action of the Church is our action  as the body of Christ on this night we also witness the Church’s respect for Christ’s Body present in the consecrated Host in the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, carried in solemn procession to the  Altar of Repose. No Mass will be celebrated again in the Church throughout the world until the Easter Vigil on Saturday evening proclaims the Resurrection that is the light of Christ.

As people who are Christians that is followers of Christ We should embrace all those who are in need of any kind as Christ did. We should be leading lives of generous service to all those who need our help wherever they are and there are many people around who may need our help and care. Each of us is called to show that we are a caring people showing the love of God to all those whose lives are loveless to all who have nobody to care for them we have to show them that ours is an all loving and caring God.  When we serve our brothers and sisters in whatever way we are called showing them that our God is an all-loving and caring father in heaven then the Eucharist whenever we partake of this great sacrament will bring us joy and peace. In the words of the liturgy let us go forth to meet the Lord in peace and thanksgiving as we celebrate the three days of the Easter Triduum

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27 Mar 2026

Palm Sunday

On Ash Wednesday we placed the ashes on our foreheads as a sign of our humility as we began our Journey for Lent. Today on Palm Sunday, we remember Jesus entrance into Jerusalem on a donkey as the people raised their voices in joyful acclamation as they sang hosanna to the Son of David. We stop and reflect for a moment on how we began our journey on Ash Wednesday and where we are now as we approach the life changing and life-giving events of Holy Week.  The first reading from Isaiah, speaks of a courageous and obedient messiah-figure, who says, “I have set my face like flint” against the beatings and scourging that lie ahead, “knowing that I shall not be put to shame.” The second reading from Philippians reminds us of Jesus’ total emptying of His divinity in order that He might identify Himself with the lowest criminal being led to His execution, “obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.” And the reading continues but God raised him high and gave him the name above all other names.

The entrance into Jerusalem is one of the very few events in Jesus’ life which is mentioned in all four gospels.  It is the only time that Jesus accepts and encourages public acclaim as Messiah.  He even goes as far as organising his entrance by telling the disciples to go and fetch the donkey.  The key moment in God’s plan of salvation is about to begin, and Jesus knows exactly how it will unfold as he understood what the will of the father would mean for him. The full drama of the Gospel begins with the crowd’s fickle acclamation of Jesus as King. It reminds us of our own fickle responses and our lack of courage as we respond to His love and truth. Palm Sunday is about Jesus’s suffering for our inadequacies and our own sins. Our journey during Holy Week is a journey about god’s love for all of us that is manifest in the cross of Good Friday.  In just three years of his public ministry, Jesus set in motion a change in the hearts of many people. Just three years of walking around healing the broken, freeing person’s enslaved spirits, bringing hope, purpose, and meaning to the poor. Those “poor” included people with wealth, with power, with influence.  As we enter Holy Week, let us pause from the rush of daily life and open our hearts to the transformative power of Christ’s example. In doing so, we honour the journey Jesus made for us on the first Good Friday and allow ourselves to be renewed in faith, hope, and love. The Church leaves us in no doubt on Palm Sunday that we have now set out on the solemn journey of Holy Week.

How will we mark this journey in the coming days? Will we let it pass by with little interruption to our normal routines? Or will we walk prayerfully with Jesus through Holy Thursday to the cross of Good Friday and then to the Feast of the resurrection at Easter. We move towards the heavenly Jerusalem because Christ himself made the journey to the Cross for us and now he offers to make it with us here and now in 2026.   May the passion story inspire all of us to try to imitate in some small way the all loving all forgiving Jesus who went through betrayal to the cross and finally came to the resurrection for us so that we will have life and have it to the full. Over the next few days let us prepare well as we walk through Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday and then we will really be able to enjoy the Easter feast which we have been preparing for since Ash Wednesday.

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21 Mar 2026

5th Sunday of Lent

It seems no time since we began Lent with the ashes of Ash Wednesday and now, we have come to the 5th Sunday of lent. We look forward to Palm Sunday and Holy Week and all the opportunities that they give us to prepare for the Easter Feast. in the 1st Reading Ezekiel tells us that our God is the God of Life, able to bring life even to dry, scattered bones. He can do the same with our broken lives and shattered communities—this is the powerful promise He made to the people of Israel.in our 2nd Reading from St. Paul’s letter to the Romans we are told that 8:8-11 Living according to the flesh brings death, but life in the Spirit brings eternal life through Jesus’ resurrection, the firstborn of the dead. This is our calling, nurturing both body and soul.

In this weekend’s gospel reading we listen to the story of Lazarus, and we hear about the compassion that Jesus had towards him and his sisters Martha and Mary. This story is also the faith that Martha and Mary had in Jesus when they sent the message to him that Lazarus was sick; indeed, he had died and was in the tomb for four days when Jesus arrived and called him to come out from the tomb. When Lazarus was called from the tomb, it was the last sign worked by the Lord before his triumphant entrance into Jerusalem, everything seems to flow to that ‘new reality’ inaugurated by Jesus who is Emmanuel, God with us. Sharing our lives and our existence, Jesus loves us with a supreme passion right up to sacrificing Himself for us on the cross of Good Friday. He was moved by those who were linked to him by ties of the most profound friendship who understood that jesus could not be anything but God’s presence amongst them.  John’s message for us today is that Jesus raises us to new life even with all the wars that are going on in the world at the present time. This raising to new life does not mean that we no longer suffer. As a matter of fact, this new life leads through pain and suffering before it reaches fullness of resurrection. Jesus demonstrates this to us as it leads to his painful death on the Cross on Good Friday.

But the new life we live leads us to a new way of living. The proof of this is Christ who rose from the dead on Easter Sunday. After his resurrection he appears to those at the beginning of their new life in Christ. We ask the Lord for the courage to listen to the voice that is calling us. The story of Lazarus invites us to look at our own lives and ask what might need to be brought back to life. Lent for 2026 may be winding down as next Sunday is Palm Sunday, but there is still time for us to do a bit spiritual spring cleaning. As we prepare for Holy Week, let us embrace these remaining days of lent trusting that, with God’s grace, even the most hidden parts of our hearts can be made new. So that when we come to the Easter celebration, we will be able to accept the invitation of Jesus to be his people and walk in his light.

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14 Mar 2026

4Th Sunday of Lent

On the Fourth Sunday of Lent the Church celebrates Laetare Sunday, a moment of joy in the middle of the penitential season. With the Iran war continuing and the Middle East and other countries in turmoil there does not seem to be a lot to happy about this weekend however as people of faith we continue to pray for the Peace of the world. Peace should be at the heart of anything we do but sadly for some peace is not an option, and war is the easy way out of doing the right thing. As we continue our Lenten journey this week, we are at the midpoint of Lent as we celebrate laetare Sunday at the midpoint of Advent in the same way we celebrate Gaudete Sunday these are the 2 days in the annual penitential seasons when we rejoice because the Lord is near. Hopefully, the things that we have given up or taken up have not been as stressful as we thought. Lent is a time for giving things up that might not be as good as we think it is also a time for taking up other more meaningful spiritual things. Things that lead us out of the darkness into the light of Christ that we celebrate at Easter.

In the first reading we hear about Young David’s selection as Israel’s king, and it shows God’s plan unfolding and we are reminded that he values the heart over outward appearances. In the second reading, St. Paul reminds us that baptism makes us “light in the Lord,” calling us to live as “children of light” in a world shadowed by false values and mis-placed priorities we are called to be a light to the nations. Our gospel is the story of the blind man, in this story we have another example of God’s choice, one which confuses the religious leaders of the day. John’s beautifully crafted story tells how a blind man comes to see the light in Jesus, both physically and spiritually. When Jesus’ disciples first see the blind man, they presume that his affliction is a result of sin. But Jesus sees in the blind man something else: this roadside beggar who has always inhabited a world of darkness will be the one to display the work of God and point to who Jesus really is. If we are to really see clearly, we need to let Jesus heal us of our blindness and open our eyes as He did the man born blind in this weekend’s Gospel.  This is a challenging gospel story for all of us even today because so many people are spiritually blind. It is possible that the places and things we think we are seeing clearly are not as clear as they should be. Remember that the ones, who were 100% sure they knew what was going on, the Pharisees, were blind to God. They were religious experts, like other experts they missed the truth staring them in the face. The one who is turning their world upside down was the Son of God who was trying to open their eyes and send them along the right road. There may be things that raise questions and upset our routines these may be the very places God is trying to open our eyes and give us the vision to set things in the right light for our lives.

The story of the blind man getting his sight gives us the opportunity to pause and ask ourselves:  How well do I see? Do I see what is really going on in my life? Has the road I have taken made me lose my way? What is dulling our appreciation of life and gods place within it? As we remember the Blind spots in our own lives, we also remember that faith always remains a choice that we make that helps us to see with great clarity of vision. When we choose to trust in God and believe in what he reveals to us, we exercise our freedom to believe. Our hearts and minds freely cooperate with God’s grace. Faith in God and each other is a journey that we take during our Lent. The 6 weeks of Lent lead us to Jesus the light of the world at Easter. The question we should ask ourselves this weekend is this: will we continue to be blind, or will we let our faith in God heal the blindness of our lives and our world so that we will be a light to the nations.

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