March 15th, 2026 (4th Sunday Lent A)

Dear Brothers and sisters, Last Sunday’s theme was “water” with the Samaritan woman at the well, this Sunday's theme is “Light.” Jesus Christ declares himself as the “light of the world” and by the temple area in Jerusalem he cures the man born blind. Christ wants to come today to our life and anoint us with his grace. Also, the blind man is anointed by Christ who throws mud on his eyes and then sends him to go and wash to the pool of Siloam. Christ has come to our lives and to the world to dispel all darkness. Sin in fact produces darkness in us; we do not see God's love anymore and the people around us. Christ manifests to us, as he manifested to this blind man, the love of God. Many times, we also are blind, we do not see or believe in the love of God for us. Especially when things go wrong, not according to our plan or if we have a sickness, we always tend to blame God. Christ and faith show us something extraordinary, something that many times we fail to see and to believe. As Christ says to the people who question him: “this sickness is neither because he sinned and neither for his parent’s sins, but it is so that the glory of God may be revealed.” Christ wants to open to all of us our eyes today and make us see that everything that happens to us is good, even what the world or we consider a mistake like this terrible sickness. Everything for the Christian and for the one who has faith is good and is for the glory of God. The Christian, the one touched by the grace of God is able to see in every event that happens to him an occasion to come closer to Christ, an opportunity to meet God, even the biggest tragedy like the cross with faith becomes filled with light and manifests the infinite love of God for us.

Peace, Fr. Nicholas