Homily for the 4th Sunday of Lent Readings: I Samuel 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a; Psalm 23; Ephesians 5:8-14; John 9:1-41 Listen at soundcloud.com In our second reading from the Letter to the Ephesians today, we read: Try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. Take no part in the fruitless works of darkness; rather expose them, for it is shameful even to mention the things done by them in secret; but everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that becomes visible is light. During the week, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, the archbishop of Washington, shed a light in the darkness.  He unequivocally condemned the US-Israel War against Iran.[1]  He observed: ‘Almost everyone rightly believes that the Khamenei regime […]

On 19 February 1996, an arsonist lit a fire that ripped through St Patrick’s Cathedral, causing $8 million in damage and leaving a community of more than 5,000 parishioners in shock.