'If it bears fruit next year, well and good.' Sunday Reflections, 3rd Sunday of Lent, Year C
Moses Before the Burning Bush , Domenico Fetti [ Web Gallery of Art ] Exodus 3:1-8a, 13-15 , First Reading Readings (New American Bible: Philippines, USA) Readings (Jerusalem Bible: Australia, England & Wales, India [optional], Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland, South Africa) Gospel Luke 13:1-9 ( New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition) At that very time there were some present who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. He asked them, ‘Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish as they did. Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam fell on them—do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others living in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all perish just as they did.’ Then he told this par