5th Sunday of Lent Scrutinies https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/040625-YearA.cfm We just heard the second longest Gospel reading by numbers of words in the entire Sunday lectionary. If you are keeping score, last week’s reading was 851 words. Today’s is 843 words. These readings are preparing us for our Passion readings next week which are almost three times as long. Today, we heard 45 verses – the entire 11th chapter of the Gospel of John. Out of the 45 verses, I would like to focus on one verse (11:35), which is the shortest verse in the Bible. It is just two words: “Jesus wept.” Jesus cries two times in the Gospels. Today, we see him cry over the death of his beloved friend Lazarus. Next week, before entering Jerusalem in a procession of palms, Jesus cries for the fate of the city, which is doomed to be destroyed by the Romans in the next thirty-five years in a siege that will result in tens of thousa...
These posts are the collected homilies of Deacon Ned Berghausen, permanent deacon of the Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville, assigned to St. Agnes Catholic Church. The title "Foot Washer" refers to the Last Supper (John 13:1-20) in which Jesus washed the feet of the apostles and challenged them, "“Do you realize what I have done for you? If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another’s feet. I have given you a model to follow."