Lent 5th Sunday A: Raising of Lazarus

5th Sunday of Lent A: Lazarus is Raised

26th Sunday C: Lazarus and the Rich Man

 

 Amos speaks to the wealthy people in Zion close to the mountains of Samaria, who feel secure with their wealth and riches.

Lent 5th Sunday A - Lazarus is Raised

In the first reading we hear Ezekiel speaking words of hope to the Israelites. At first he may seem to speak of the resurrection, but he is actually predicting the renewed vitality of the whole people of Israel. In the passage before this, Ezekiel painted a picture of dry bones, the bones of warriors fallen in battle which remained unburied and littered some of the battlefields. For Ezekiel the dry bones are without life, like the graves mentioned in today's reading. He predicts that God's life-giving breath will restore his people, give them new life and resettle them in their land.

26 Sunday C - Lazarus - Jesus Turns Tables

 Amos speaks to the wealthy people in Zion close to the mountains of Samaria, who feel secure with their wealth and riches.

Lent 5A - Lazarus

From Fr. Jude Botelho:

In the first reading we hear Ezekiel speaking words of hope to the Israelites. At first he may seem to speak of the resurrection, but he is actually predicting the renewed vitality of the whole people of Israel. In the passage before this, Ezekiel painted a picture of dry bones, the bones of warriors fallen in battle which remained unburied and littered some of the battlefields. For Ezekiel the dry bones are without life, like the graves mentioned in today's reading. He predicts that God's life-giving breath will restore his people, give them new life and resettle them in their land.

26 Sunday C - Lazarus

 From The Connections:
 
 

THE WORD:

The rich man (sometimes known as “Dives”) is not really a bad man, but a self-centered, complacent one.  Dives’ sin is his remaining oblivious to the plight of Lazarus (a name which means “God’s help”) at his gate and his blind acceptance of the poverty of so many and wealth in the hands of so few like himself as the natural, inevitable order of things.  It was not his wealth that kept him from “Abraham's bosom,” but his untrustworthy stewardship of what he had.

Lent 5 A - Lazarus is Raised

1: A sign of resurrection:

DEATH

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. 
Mark Twain.