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A Friend of the Lord Jesus

Bishop Robert Barron

March 5, 2023

Friends, the readings for the Second Sunday of Lent brought to mind my good friend Bishop David O’Connell, who was killed last month. He was one of the most Christ-like people I have ever known—a man of deep spiritual conviction, with a profound sense of the power of the Holy Spirit. Like Abraham, he followed the Lord’s call from his homeland of Ireland to serve in the United States, working among the poor and with members of gangs. He called those he served to a deep life of prayer and spiritual transformation in Christ, a mystery revealed in the Gospel account of the Transfiguration.

Mass Readings

Reading 1 – Gn 12:1-4a
Psalm – Ps 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22.
Reading 2 – 2 Tm 1:8b-10
Gospel – Mt 17:1-9

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