St. Agnes Catholic Church March 2/3 3rd Sunday of Lent https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/030324-YearA.cfm As the deer longs for streams of water, so my soul longs for you, O God. It is you I seek! For my body yearns, my soul thirsts for God, the living God (Psalm 42:2-3a, 63:2). My high school students have a very strange problem. [pause for dramatic effect]. They are overhydrated. I know you are familiar with dehydration. It may sound strange to hear that a person could be overhydrated, but I see my students carrying around large water bottles at all times—Stanley cups, Camelbacks, Yetis—which they are constantly draining and refilling. Consequently, they can hardly sit for whole class period without needing to visit the restroom. And on the way, they refill their water bottles. This situation would be utterly alien to the people of Jesus’ world, who experienced water scarcity when wandering in the Sinai desert, an...
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."