March 2012
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lawrenceop:
MY FRIEND INDEED!
HOMILY for the 5th Sunday of Lent (B)
Jeremiah 31:31-34; Ps 50; Heb 5:7-9; John 12:20-33
Today’s Gospel begins with friendship, with something quite familiar, as some Greeks approach their friend Philip, and with his friend Andrew, they ask to be introduced to Jesus. And so, like those Greeks, perhaps we can approach Jesus in this Gospel through the lens of...
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lawrenceop:
HOMILY for Tue in Week 4 of Lent
Ezekiel 47:1-9,12; Ps 45; Jn 5:1-3,5-16
Ezekiel’s vision of a restored Temple is a promise that God will restore the fortunes of Israel, that God will be with his people. And God has fulfilled his promise in Christ. Because Jesus is Emmanuel, God-with-us, and as we hear in the Gospels, Jesus is the Temple because it is through him that God...
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