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Sermon: Quinquagesima.2012

Quinquagesima (Pre-Lent)
Luke 18.31-43
2.19.2012


In the Name of the Father and of the + Son and of the Holy Spirit

Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!

The cry of the blind man is the cry of the Christian Church on the eve of Lent and throughout out life. And it is a constant cry: as we see in the Gospel, not even the polite rebukes of other people are able to silence it. The blind man, and the Church continue: “Son of David, have mercy on me!”