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I’m hoping and praying that your encounter with Jesus is also life-changing. In Confirmation the Holy Spirit enlightens the eyes of your soul.

After man born blind was cured, he bore witness to the Lord, just as St. Patrick did after he received the gift of faith. Let us ask the intercession of St. Patrick, that our vision of faith may be luminous, and that we, like him, might bear witness to our faith among family members, friends, and co-workers – and thus help open their eyes to the One “who loves us and gave his life for us.”

How we pray reveals what our relationship with God is like. In fact, prayer is more than a way of enhancing our relationship with God – prayer is our relationship with God, that time when we acknowledge him to be Lord,
those moments when he reveals us to ourselves, those moments when we discern what we must say and what we must do.

Dear catechumens, you see what is going on in this Gospel: the Samaritan woman experiences purification and enlightenment at a well, a well which stands for the baptismal font, that flowing fountain at which you are soon to be cleansed and reborn.

Dear brothers, on this day when you are instituted as lectors, taking a step closer to your diaconal ordination, I invite you to reflect on the importance of listening to the voice of the Lord. For how we listen to the Word of God will shape how we proclaim it.

Just as Jesus manifested his glory to the Apostles before his Passion and Death,  so he reveals his glory to us today so that we will neither flag nor fail in our Lenten journey to Calvary.

When we embrace the poor and lowly, encountering them not as a problem to be solved but as persons made in the image of God, then it is that the Law of Love is fulfilled in us.

Behind the text of Matthew’s Gospel is the bedrock truth of our faith, that this obscure Rabbi from Galilee was, and is, the Incarnate Son of God: He is the Word made flesh, the very embodiment of the Torah, not as it is written on tablets of stone, but as it is inscribed on the mind of God.