March 15, 2026 -- Fourth Sunday of Lent "A"
1 Samuel 16, 1…13; Eph. 5, 8-14; John 9, 1-41
H O M I L Y
When something wrong happens to us, ‑‑ like an accident or an illness ‑‑ our first reaction, in most of the cases, is "Why? Why is that happening to me? What have I done to deserve this?" This is the question the Disciples ask, in the presence of the blind man. Or, more exactly, they want to know if that evil came to that man because of his own sins or because of his parents' sins. Jesus refuses to be trapped into that form of reasoning. For Him evil ‑‑ physical of moral ‑‑ is not a thing to be explained; it is a thing to be destroyed. It is a reality man must be freed from.