You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows (Psalm 23)

We are all called to accept Jesus and proclaim the Good News of the Gospel to all people.

With our journey through Holy Week Palm Sunday to Easter Day, we are led deeper into a sombre reflection and reverence of the final days of Jesus 's life.

Just like the blind man in last week’s readings, Lazarus represents us all. Lazarus represents all of humanity (all “dead men”) that Jesus loves and wants to liberate from the clutches of sin and death.

Now, he is in the light, not just of his physical sight, but because a deeper insight opens him up to Jesus who is the Light of the world.

The Holy Spirit that is present in Baptism. Baptism, the ritual which is the is the outward symbolic sign of a deep reality, the coming of God penetrating every aspect of a person’s life.

This Sunday we look to the internal struggles within a faith community, faith versus works as the means to be in relationship with God.

But, in Christ that we are not alone as we are united to Christ. It is in union with Christ that we face temptation and receive salvation.

By the 6th Century ashes were an important part of the Lenten journey in public acts of penance. The practice of placing ashes on the foreheads of all believers on the first day of Lent (Ash Wednesday) became common by the 10th century.

The Church uses the term Ordinary Time to the order of Sundays in the church year that do not fall into the major liturgical seasons of Advent, Christmas, Lent, or Easter.