LENT AS AN ILLUMINATION MOMENT
Homily for the Fourth Sunday in Lent, Year A Fr. Ugochukwu Ugwoke, ISch 1 Samuel 16:1,6-7,10-13; Ephesians 5:8-14; John 9:1-41 A few years ago, a man told the story of how he suddenly realized that his eyeglasses prescription had changed. For months he had been struggling to read signs clearly. At first, he thought the problem was the lighting, the distance, or even his eyes being tired. But when he finally visited an optometrist and received new lenses, he was amazed. Things he thought were normal blur suddenly became clear. The world had not changed but his ability to see had. In many ways, this is what the Fourth Sunday of Lent invites us to experience: a movement from blurred vision to clarity, from blindness to sight. Since the beginning of Lent, our journey has been unfolding through powerful biblical images. On the First Sunday, we reflected on Lent as a desert or wilderness experience, following Jesus into the desert where He confronted temptation. The desert stripped away dist...
