Third Sunday of Lent

Readings: Ex 2:1-8a, 13-15; 1 Cor 10:1-6, 10-12; Lk 13:1-9

From the Gospel: “He said to the vinedresser, ‘Look here!  For three years now I have come in

	Mt 9,27-31
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search of fruit on this fig tree and found none.  Cut it down.  Why should it clutter up the ground’” (Lk 13:7)?

Thought for the day: “You Christians are no different than anyone else!”  So we hear it said to us.  It has to do with a question that should be a thorn in our flesh.  Do people notice that we Christians are different, at least at some points in our life?  How could “being different” look today?  I will tell you briefly.
Christians who are different expect something beyond what can be ordered from the mail catalogues.  They are able to let go of things in order to attain to greater freedom.  They do not have to be continually absorbing food and noise.  They are capable of inner peace and recollection.  They prefer to think for themselves, and rejoice in even the little and ordinary things of life.  Such Christians can forget themselves from time to time in order to be happy even in the flood of time and work, obligations and worries.  Such Christians can always trust again in spite of disappointments because they know that they are not working alone.  God and his Spirit, who directs hearts, works with them. (Bishop Dr. Joachim Wanke)