Mass 4th Sunday Lent 2020
Channel: Jesuit Institute South Africa
Date: 2020-03-22

Join the Jesuit Institute South Africa as they celebrate the Holy Mass for the 4th Sunday Lent 2020 in Year A of the Liturgical Calendar. Today's Mass is celebrated by Fr Russell Pollitt SJ.

Owing to COVID-19 and the suspensions of Mass in various parts of the country, we invite everyone to make a 'Spiritual Communion' with us during this Mass. More resources are available at https://www.jesuitinstitute.org.za/covid-19-resources/

You might want to light a candle, or do something to make this a prayerful time for you all. Our readings for this Mass are:

              First Reading       1 Samuel 16:1b, 6–7, 10–13a
              Response       Psalm 23:1       
              Psalm       Psalm 23:1–6
              Second Reading       Ephesians 5:8–14
              Gospel Acclamation       John 8:12
              Gospel       John 9:1–41

Homily for the 4th Sunday of Lent – A (beginning 16m 05s)
22 March 2020

Fr Russell Pollitt SJ

The physically blind really see and those with physical sight are blind. That is what is at the core of the account that we hear in St John’s Gospel today. 

In this difficult and challenging time in the world and in the Church, when everything we hear and see is about COVID-19, the account of the blind man offers us, it seems to me, lessons to us on how we face the challenging time we find ourselves in. 

I want to suggest, friends, that there are 3 things we can reflect on this 4th Sunday, rejoicing Sunday, of Lent. 

1. Religious structures
2. Sickness
3. Sight and seeing… not the same!

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