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The ending of Matthew’s Gospel can be understood as the beginning of the Church.

Only through the Spirit will God’s revelation and love be known.

As God spoke his name to Moses, “I am,” so too Jesus speaks his name to his disciples: “I am the way and the truth and the life.”

Christian leaders follow the example of Jesus, the Good Shepherd, by being faithful to him and by being a good shepherd.

In the Eucharist too we share in the breaking of the bread and discover Jesus in our midst.

Through Baptism we receive the same Holy Spirit that Jesus brought to the first disciples.

In Baptism we die to sin’s power over us, rising as children of God.

The man born blind gradually comes to a greater understanding about who Jesus is and what it means to be his disciple, while the Pharisees (those who should see) are the ones who remain blind.

The conversion of the Samaritan townspeople is a foretaste of the kind of open community that will be created among those who believe that Jesus is the Messiah.

For the second Sunday of Lent, we move from Jesus’ retreat to the desert to his Transfiguration.