The Good Word!!!

We have been in situations before where someone will ask you, "What's the good word?" It's the same as saying, "How are you doing?" Before, I never knew what to say when they asked about the good word but that has all changed now. Actually, I learned this a number of years ago and I think it was my dad that told me this. He said, "When someone asks you what the good word is say, John 3:16." That passage says it all and it gives us hope. Have you ever been to a sporting event or watched one on television and invariably someone has a large sign that says, John 3:16. Either those people just want to get noticed or maybe they are being a messenger of hope. We live in a world that needs hope and this passage of scripture gives us the assurance that we need. At Mass this weekend we will listen to the Gospel of Saint John 3:14-21, unless the Second Scrutiny for the Elect is being done, then you will hear the passage of the man born blind and how Jesus healed him. John 3:16 says clearly and powerfully, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life." This Lenten Time reminds us of God's love and why Jesus came into the world- to suffer, die, and rise again. We thank God for the gift of His only Son and for the gift of faith that we have received. May our faith always be strong and let us give one another hope as we share the Good Word with them! Have a blessed weekend!!!