This Week
Fourth Sunday of Lent
15/3/2026
Today is also Mothering Sunday
In today’s Gospel, the man born blind reports how he was healed. We hear the different views of the pharisees, parents, disciples, and others. Like everyday life, there is a lot of noise and contrasting opinions. Despite the potential distractions, the man born blind spends time with Jesus one on one, listening to the Truth. He is receptive and has a great capacity to embrace the news that Jesus is the ‘Son of Man’, as he proclaims ‘Lord, I believe’. We are told that he then ‘worshipped him’.
The call to worship echoes from last week, when we heard Jesus tell the Woman at the Well, that ‘true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him.’ Perhaps the man born blind fulfils this degree of worship in his authentic acknowledgement of Christ.
Worship comes through humility and by acknowledging and adoring the Creator. The Eucharist is the ‘Source and Summit’ of worship. Laetare Sunday, (‘laetare’ means rejoice), highlights that we are midway through Lent with our ‘faces like flint’, as we journey to and beyond the darkness of the tomb of Good Friday, to the Resurrection of Jesus who is the ‘Light of the world’. May this be the cause of our rejoicing so that we can worship God wholeheartedly. We ask Our Lady, Queen of Humility, on this Mothering Sunday, to intercede for us. Hail Mary, full of grace….
Una Daly
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