What do you make of it?

Third Sunday of Lent (C), March 14, 2004

Readings: Ex 3:1-8a, 13-15; Ps 103:1-4, 6-8, 11; 1 Cor 10:1-6, 10-12; Lk 13:1-9

"If they ask me ... what am I to tell them?" (Ex 3:13)

THOSE OF US who were raised on any kind of catechism, whether the pre-Vatican II Baltimore Catechism, the Dutch catechism that was popular during the 1960's and 70's or today's Catechism of the Catholic Church, were introduced to a list of characteristics or "attributes" of God. Among them were such clearly defined traits as ...