5th Sunday of Lent (Year A)
Opening the Word • 5m 32s
This week's Gospel shows us Jesus wants us to let Him into all those places that have been rendered dead by sin. He wants to weep with us in his humanity, but also to reveal his divinity and bring about a total healing.
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