South Sudan's Challenge
Healing & Reconciliation
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Short Reflection for the 4th Sunday in Lent (A)
Dhikr for the 4th
Sunday of Lent (A): The Blind Man
Readings: I
Samuel 16: 1. 6-7. 10-13; Ephesians 5: 8-14; John 9: 1-41
Gospel Passage: Then Jesus said, "I came into this world
for judgment, so that those who do not see might see, and those who do see
might become blind." (John 9: 39)
Meditation: Jesus Christ becomes the lens for seeing and
not seeing… Through him we do see/not see the poor, the needy, and the
injustice and the wrong against neighbors.
Pope Emeritus Benedict wrote about today’s Gospel:
“The Gospel confronts each one of us with the question: “Do you believe in the
Son of man?” “Lord, I believe!” (Jn 9:35; 38), the man born blind joyfully exclaims, giving voice
to all believers. The miracle of this healing is a sign that Christ wants not
only to give us sight, but also open our interior vision, so that our faith may
become ever deeper and we may recognize him as our only Savior. He illuminates
all that is dark in life and leads men and women to live as “children of the
light.”
Lent
is a season for seeing…
Loving Others Is the Way to Peace!
“Let us be wary of mass solutions, let us be wary of statistics. We must love our neighbors as ourselves. To be sure, helping persons individually naturally implies that one cannot help them all, at least not directly.”
“There is perhaps no surer road to peace than the one that starts from little islands and oases of genuine kindness, island and oases constantly growing in number and being continually joined together until eventually they ring the world.”
“The union between two people who rediscover their dignity while working together to save a third, rids us of many of the barriers of prejudices, narrow-mindedness, and discrimination that poison human love and sap its strength. We must now have faith in the power of love and set it to work.”
(Fr. Dominique Pire, OP - 1958 Nobel Peace Laureate)
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