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Catholic Charities USA
Saturday of the Fifth Week of Lent
Readings of the Day
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As we draw close to the concluding days of Lent, Saint John's
Gospel details one of the darker chapters in his account of the life
of our Lord Jesus. We are told in today's reading that the
enemies of Jesus had resolved to eliminate the threat that they
perceived him to be by planning to kill Him.
Considering these grim circumstances, it is instructive that the
liturgy pairs this account of the impending threats to Jesus with a
reading from Ezekiel about the restoration of the people of Israel to
the Promised Land after their captivity in Babylon. Ezekiel was a
Hebrew prophet who was taken captive during the Babylonian Exile, and
his writings were primarily directed to his fellow captives who - by
that time in history (approximately 570 B.C.) - had been so widely
scattered among surrounding nations by the Babylonians that they
seemed all but lost as a people.
Deprived of their land, their king and their Temple, Ezekiel's
devout contemporaries would have despaired that the Twelve Tribes of
Israel would ever be united again as one nation, one kingdom under
God. As an antidote to this despair, Ezekiel tells his listeners of
God's promise of a coming restoration of that would bring them
back into the Promised Land - inspiring within them a hope that God
would someday revive them as a nation.
This juxtaposition in today's readings between darkness and hope
is I believe intentional, and very apropos for us as we prepare to
begin Holy Week - a time which includes moments of great
darkness, but which concludes with the great hope of God's
saving power that is the Resurrection.
For many of us who work at Catholic Charities agencies, we can also
experience this juxtaposition between darkness and hope: so often in
our offices, parish centers, food pantries, soup kitchens, intake
centers and residential facilities, we meet with individuals and
families at dark and difficult moments as we try to provide them with
the help that they need - whether it is providing nutritious food to
the mom struggling to make ends meet for her family, help with rental
assistance for the ailing veteran under threat of eviction, or giving
immigration assistance to the young couple fleeing oppression abroad.
As many of us can attest to from personal experience, receiving
assistance of this sort not only helps those we serve out of their
immediate need, but very often also inspires in them and in their
families hope to live the dignified lives that they are called to live
for being made in the image and likeness of God.
The motto of many Catholic Charities agencies is simple but profound:
"Providing Help. Creating Hope". As we begin this
holiest week on the Christian calendar, may we who are privileged to
do this important work that "provides help" and
"creates hope" remember the great gift of hope that Easter
is - as well as the gift of life restored which Easter brings,
that no darkness can long prevail against.
Tom Dobbins Jr. is Justice and Peace Coordinator in the Department of
Social and Community Development of the Catholic Charities of the
Archdiocese of New York, a producer for Sirius/XM's Catholic
Channel and Chair Emeritus of the Roundtable Association of Catholic
Diocesan Social Action Directors.
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