In this reflection on the Fourth Sunday of Lent, Laetare Sunday, Tony Crescio highlights the central importance of attentive listening in the Christian life. Only when we heed Christ’s call to us do we become fully enlivened and allow His life to permeate us and spill over into the world, which is a great cause for rejoicing.
Mass Readings:
Reading 1: 1 Samuel 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a
Psalm: Psalm 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6
Reading 2: Ephesians 5:8-14
Gospel: John 9:1-41
Tony Crescio is the founder of FRESHImage Ministries. He holds an MTS from the University of Notre Dame and is currently a PhD candidate in Christian Theology at Saint Louis University. His research focuses on the intersection between moral and sacramental theology. His dissertation is entitled, Presencing the Divine: Augustine, the Eucharist and the Ethics of Exemplarity.
Tony’s academic publications can be found here.