Sunday 28th February 2016
3rd Sunday of Lent 11am. Sung Mass at St. John Fisher Catholic Church Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission Celebrant Fr. Lee Bennett Fruits of the Fig: Scott Hahn Reflects on the 3rd Sunday of Lent Readings: Exodus 3:1-8 , 13-15 Psalm 103:1-4 , 6-8 , 11 1 Corinthians 10:1-6 , 10-12 Luke 13:1-9 In the Church, we are made children of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - the God who makes known His name and His ways to Moses in today's First Reading. Mindful of His covenant with Abraham (see Exodus 2:24 ), God came down to rescue His people from the slave-drivers of Egypt. Faithful to that same covenant (see Luke 1:54-55 , 72-73 ), He sent Jesus to redeem all lives from destruction, as today's Psalm tells us. Paul says in today's Epistle that God's saving deeds in the Exodus were written down for the Church, intended as a prelude and foreshadowing of our own Baptism by water, our liberation from sin, our feeding with spiritu