9 March 2025 - 1st Sunday of Lent ‘C’
Deut 26:4-10; Rom 10:8-13; Luke 4:1-13
Homily
During Christmas Eve 1993, a group of ‘brothers of the mountain’ presented themselves at the monastery of Tibhirine, in Algeria, and their leader Saya Attiya made three requests to the prior, Father Christian de Chergé, who responded negatively to each of them. And when Attiya told him that the monks had no choice, he replied, ‘Yes, we have a choice.’ Attiya withdrew... until the appointed time, one might say. And we know what happened next.