Homily for Wednesday of the 5th Week of Lent

Jesus declares, “the truth will set you free.” A little later in John’s Gospel, He will say of Himself, “I am the truth.”

Jesus is a source of true freedom for His followers. He goes on to declare, “If the Son frees you, then you will be truly free.” It is through staying close to Him that we can enter into what St. Paul calls “the glorious freedom of the children of God.”

Our relationship with Jesus, and the Holy Spirit that He pours into our hearts, lets us live as God wants us to live: in ways that correspond to what is best within us.

True freedom is the freedom to love, to give of ourselves to others as Jesus gave of Himself to us. It is for this freedom we pray during these final weeks of Lent.+