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The Second Sunday of Lent brings us to contemplate the glory of Our Lord Jesus Christ’s Transfiguration.
On this First Sunday of Lent, I would like to focus with you on our first reading - the reading from the Book of Genesis, which portrays for us the sin of our first parents. I would also like to show how the Blessed Virgin Mary can help us live Lent well.
This Sunday’s Gospel is filled with hard sayings, sayings that very much affect our life as Christians. There is not much use in trying to sugar-coat today’s Gospel reading.
The Gospel of this, the 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time says to us, “You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored…You are the light of the world…no one after lighting a lamp puts it under a bushel basket.” I’d like to explore with you these themes in today’s homily.
On this 4th Sunday of Ordinary Time, the Church in Her liturgy gives us the Beatitudes, a text that should form the backbone of our Christian life.
Let us consider some themes of this Third Sunday of Ordinary Time: the themes of passing from darkness into light, of moving from factions to unity, and the theme of call, the call of the first Apostles. Today is also the Sunday of the Word of God.