Daily Mass Gospel Reflection- Losing Sight of sin

Word on Fire Ministry ^ | 04.02.22 | Aux. Bishop R. Barron

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Fourth Week of Lent

John 7:40-53

Friends, we see in today’s Gospel how Jesus’ preaching caused division.
Some hearers believed him, but others wanted to arrest him.

The life, preaching, and mission of Jesus are predicated upon the assumption that all is not well with us,
that we stand in need of a renovation of vision, attitude, and behavior.
A few decades ago, the book I’m OK—You’re OK appeared.
Its title, and the attitude that it embodies, are inimical to Christianity.

The fact of sin is so often overlooked today.
Look, no one has ever savored being accused of sin, but especially in our
culture now there is an allergy to admitting personal fault.
A salvation religion makes no sense if all is basically fine with us, if all we need is a little sprucing up around the edges.

Christian saints are those who can bear the awful revelation that sin is not simply an abstraction
or something that other people wrestle with,
but a power that lurks and works in them.

When we lose sight of sin,
we lose sight of Christianity,
which is a salvation religion.

[MurphsLaw]

+++Some in the crowd who heard
these words of Jesus said,
“This is truly the Prophet.”
Others said, “This is the Christ.”
But others said, “The Christ will
not come from Galilee, will he?
Does not Scripture say that the
Christ will be of David’s family
and come from Bethlehem, the village
where David lived?”
So a division occurred in the crowd
because of him.
Some of them even wanted to arrest him,
but no one laid hands on him.

So the guards went to the chief
priests and Pharisees,
who asked them, “Why did you not bring him?”
The guards answered, “Never before
has anyone spoken like this man.”
So the Pharisees answered them,
“Have you also been deceived?
Have any of the authorities or the
Pharisees believed in him?
But this crowd, which does not know
the law, is accursed.”
Nicodemus, one of their members who
had come to him earlier, said to them,
“Does our law condemn a man before
it first hears him
and finds out what he is doing?”
They answered and said to him,
“You are not from Galilee also, are you?
Look and see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”

Then each went to his own house.+++

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