4th Sunday of Lent (3)

There are moments in life when we cross a threshold, when we step from what has been into what will be. Some moments are dramatic—a child taking its first steps, a student receiving a degree, a family moving into a new home. Others are quieter, almost imperceptible—the slow …

Our readings this Sunday, the fourth Sunday of Lent, speak of coming home. St Paul in our second reading speaks of Jesus appealing to us to be reconciled with God. The Jews, after their wanderings in the desert after leaving Egypt and being sustained through the manna from …

Today’s rich readings all play on the themes of blindness and sight, darkness and light, fear and hope. In the first reading we see: how Samuel is initially blind to the choice of the Lord, preferring Eliab; and then we see how Jesse was blind to the possibility of his …