March 10 - Sunday of the 4th Week of Lent, Year B
(2Chr.36:14-16,19-23; Ps.137:1-6; Eph.2:4-10; Jn.3:14-21) "By the streams of Babylon we sat and wept." For "practicing all the abominations of the nations and polluting the Lord's temple," the people of God "were carried captive to Babylon." For all their "infidelity" they were forced to watch as "their enemies burnt the house of God [and] tore down the walls of Jerusalem." And so did their "tongue[s] cleave to [their] palate[s]" in a foreign land; so they "hung up [their] harps"; so their "right hand[s] [were] forgotten"… They could not sing the praises of the Lord; they could not strum to…
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