WELCOME TO ST AGNES ECCLESTON

In this Mass, the colour violet or rose is used. Instrumental music is permitted, and the altar may be decorated with flowers.

On this Sunday is celebrated the second scrutiny in preparation for the Baptism of the catechumens who are to be admitted to the Sacraments of Christian Initiation at the Easter Vigil, using the proper prayers and intercessions.

When Jesus sees the blind man, he says, “As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” Once the blind man is healed, the people ask, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” They betray their own blindness: “man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” The blind man answers using words that Christ uses of himself; he says, “I am.” Is this a coincidence? The man was born blind “that the works of God might be displayed in him”. “For the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true.” The Light who is Christ produces a goodness in us by which we come to resemble Christ himself. We beg for the ability to look into the heart of each person we meet and to see reality the way God does.