From Catholic Charities USA ... "Lent Daily Reflection" for March 21

Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent

Readings of the Day

And it will come about that every living creature which swarms in every place where the river goes, will live... and will grow all kinds of trees for food ... whose fruit will be for food and whose leaves for healing.
Ez 47: 9

In today’s Gospel Jesus is persecuted for healing on the Sabbath. He encounters a man suffering from a lifetime of crippling infirmary and tells him to take up his mat and walk. A miracle by anyone’s standards! However, people don’t see the miracle but only the breaking of the Sabbath laws. And when they learn it was Jesus who did the healing, they persecute him, seeing not mercy but only violation ...

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