Homily for the Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent

“If you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciples, and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.”

The freedom promised by Christ to those who remain in his word is much deeper than the freedom offered by the world. Christ’s freedom is not simply political freedom. Neither is it the ability to choose whatever I want when I want, and how I want. The freedom of Christ’s disciple is spiritual, moral, and interior; it is the freedom for which every person longs in the depths of his heart. And only Christ gives this kind of freedom.