A Morning Service for the Third Sunday of Lent 2022
Rarely have events in the world been so coincidently related to the Gospel reading appointed for the day – or so horrific.
Rather than the cruelty of a tyrant like Pilate or the random destructiveness of a tower of Siloam, we have the bombardment of cities full of children and the elderly. We have the work of evil, and just as they did 2,000 years ago, people ask ‘Why?’ ‘Why? What did they do to deserve this aggression?’