HOMILY FOR SATURDAY OF THE 3RD WEEK OF LENT
Homily for Saturday of the 3rd week of Lent Hosea 6:1-6. Psalm 51:3-4,18-19,20-21ab. Luke 18:9-14. The prophet Isaiah tells us in the first reading, "Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn, that he may heal us; he has stricken, and he will bind us up" (Hos.6:1). Once we decide to leave God, we become torn and stricken, but if we come to our senses and return to him, He will heal us and raise us up. One of the signs that we have left the Lord is when we are proud and despise others like the Pharisee in parable of Jesus in today's Gospel. Jesus told this parable to those who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others. All that the Pharisees said about himself is true, but he went home sad because he was full of himself. He was recounting his achievements, which were filthy rags before God's holiness. Instead of communing with God in humility, he was simply talking to himself. Since he was full of himself, there was nothing he needed fro...