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Take Five for Faith, Fourth Sunday of Lent, March 2

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Fourth Sunday of Lent

Seeing with the eyes of faith

Did you ever go looking for your glasses when they were sitting right on top of your head? Or search all over the house for your car keys when they were lying on the kitchen table, right where you left them? There are times when we can look right at something and not see it because we don’t believe it’s there. Take Jesus, for instance. We say we look for him and can’t find him. Yet the Bible says he is “near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (Romans 10:8). If you are born of a woman, Christ is in you, wrapped up in your humanity. And there is nothing that can separate you from the love of God you have in Jesus Christ. Seeing may be believing, but in this case believing is seeing.

Today’s readings: 1 Samuel 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a; Ephesians 5:8-14; John 9:1-41

“Jesus said to him, ‘You have seen him, the one speaking with you is he.’ ”

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Contributors: Father Paul Boudreau, Alice Camille, Daniel Grippo, Father Larry Janowski, Ann O’Connor, Sean Reynolds, Joel Schorn, and Patrice J. Tuohy